Saturday 21 August 2010

"... I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything"


"Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are." (Everything is Illuminated)

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet." (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)

Jonathan Safran Foer.

By Acting Like a Man In LOVE, He Became A Man In Love Again