Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.

Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be.

I exist in case you need to be protected.) That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is what you always fail to understand.

'You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha.

She addressed her world honestly, searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her, but to each she would have to say, I don’t love you. Table, ivory elephant charm, rainbow, onion, hairdo,mollusk, Shabbos, violence, cuticle, melodrama, ditch, honey, doily … None of it moved her. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her.

Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it.

'I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven arteries of my veins.'.

Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.

I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is.

1.2 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005).

Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer