Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Quotes.

1. "Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

2. "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."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

3. "I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

4. "I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the 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 of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

5. "I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

6. "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

7. "I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

8. "She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

9. "Songs are as sad as the listener."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

10. "Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war."
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close