#extremely loud & incredibly close

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[the raven king, maggie stiefvater / normal people / extremely loud and incredibly close, jonathan safran foer / skam / strawberry wine, noah kahan / our flag means death / the good place / ted lasso / the raven king]

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[thehopefulquotes]

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

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“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

[qvotable]

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.

Jonathan Safran Foer; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[thoughtkick]

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

[perfectquote]

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer

[perfectfeelings]

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer

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My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[quotefeeling]

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer

[thebookquotes]

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer

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reading extremely loud and incredibly close (absolutely devastating, highly recommend) and i can’t stop thinking about this passage in connection to the dreamer trilogy/maggie stiefvater lore:

i don’t know how i know this (i know it is in some respect true although i may be misremembering details) but i remember maggie talking about how one day she was driving to some mundane place — the sort of place you go everyday, the sort of drive you don’t even think about because it’s become second nature — in one of her unusual, maggie-like cars and coming toward her on the other side of the road is her same exact car, and driving that car is a person that looks, from a distance, an awful lot like her. and in my recollection she was so shaken in this moment — essentially having this intense feeling of seeing herself duplicated, another version of her driving around her life — that she turned around and went home. and that this experience is what inspired the dreamer trilogy.

the idea of a doppelgänger, or a twinned self, is so embedded in the dreamer trilogy so knowing this origin story makes it all the more interesting to me. in mythology a doppelgänger is often a bad omen, a bringer of bad luck, like an evil twin, but that’s not really the case in real life or tdt. in the case of hennessy and jordan, niall and the new fenian, mór and aurora, they are all literal copies of one another — a face, a body copy and pasted. the pairs are mirrors of each other living parallel lives — in many ways more different from one another than similar. at least one of them is constantly wondering, am i the imposter? have you gotten it more right than i have?

declan and ronan are mirrors — constantly forced to recognize their father in one another and themselves. and this — the moment when ronan first sees the new fenian and thinks is that me? — feels more the like universal human experience than the true, exact copies do. that moment is the experience of maggie seeing someone with her car and changing course, turning the mundane to the extraordinary. it’s a wake up call. it’s a nudge from the universe.

it’s the moments of recognizing ourselves in others, others recognizing themselves in us. of walking around the world looking like your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, and every stranger you’ve never met.

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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

[ankakonkel]

"Tak bardzo boję się stracić coś, co kocham, że nie chcę kochać niczego".

Jonathan Safran Foer - "Strasznie głośno, niesamowicie blisko"

[surqrised]

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

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