I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inabil…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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