Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the li…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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