- "We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages."-Walden
- "All men want not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."-Walden
- "Everything is the way it is, because everything was the way it was" -everything is illuminated
- "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future." -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "And so on, and so on, each note a collage of love that could never be, and war that could."- Everything is Illuminated
- ”I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.” –Everything is Illuminated
- "The wind that blows/ Is all that any body knows."-Walden
- ”I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary.”-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"-Walden
- ”When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?" -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "In the course of a lifetime, what will it matter?"-Walk Two Moons
- "'That's because we're in an airplane. The stars are below us.' 'Oh, in an airplane,' said Tereza, squeezing his hand ever tighter and falling asleep again. And Tomas knew that Tereza was looking out of the round window of an airplane flying high above the stars." -The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- "The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into."-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?" –Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness...."-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "'Well?' 'Nothing yet. I've been waiting.' 'For what?' She made no response. She could not tell him that she had been waiting for him."- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- "'What was the name of his book?' 'I can't remember the name. He used to talk about it all the time. He'd tell me stories from it to put me to sleep.' 'What's it about?' she asked. 'It's about love.' She laughed. 'They're all about love.'" -Everything is Illuminated
- ”I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly things but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all the change, I like hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone”- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- ”I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn’t mine, and the end of the day, I fill the suitcase with old news." –Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- ”And everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."-Everything is Illumintated
- "But I love your feet//only because they walked//upon the earth and upon//the wind and upon the waters,//until they found me." -Your Feet, pablo neruda
sep 12 2009 ∞
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