Jonathan Safran Foer
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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