JonFen dixit

Five years ago I read one of the best novels I have ever read, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". Now I am ready to read it again. Here some quotes by JonFen (whose last book I think is VERY boring, exactly the opposite to his novels).

"I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else."

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"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

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"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."

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"When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible."

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"It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss."

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"... I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything."

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"Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are."

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"This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?"

Foto: JonFen & Nicole Krauss in Berlin by Betina N.