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"This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

"You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated 

One of the oddest books I’ve read. 

(Source: quotewhore)

"Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me?"

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 

(Source: quote-book)

"We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames."

Jonathan Safran Foer 

(Source: yunzi)

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

Jonathan Safran Foer 

(Source: 24ribs)