Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) - Jonathan Safran Foer

She also gave me Grandpa's camera, which I loved for two reasons. I asked why he didn't take it with him when he left her. She said, "Maybe he wanted you to have it." I said, "But I was negative-thirty years old." She said, "Still."
(p. 3)



In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.
(p. 38)


That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
(p. 71)


Time was passing by like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
(p. 224)


We got at the end of the line for the elevator.
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
(p. 247)


It broke my heart into more pieces that my heart was made of.
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