Quotations from the book

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

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.

—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

About Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer (; born February 21, 1977) is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.

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