I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recogn…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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