I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could …

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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