"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Quotes

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I felt too much. I started to feel uncomfortable inside my own skin.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren’t on our lists, people we’ve never met but still want to protect.

It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

I went to a tattoo parlor and had 'I love you' written on my arm so I could see it when I was alone.