I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he cou…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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