

“My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.”
― It Occurred to Me
― It Occurred to Me

“There’s something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no controlling it—love does what it wants when it wants.”
― Cursed
― Cursed

“Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.”
― Rosemary and Rue
― Rosemary and Rue

“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic." "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon." "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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