07 3 / 2012
"I didn’t know what was waiting for me. Although my stomach hurt and my eyes would not stop watering, I made up my mind that nothing, nothing was going to stop me. Not even me."
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25 2 / 2012
I just spent my Saturday night laying in bed and watching ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ for the 3rd time
Actually, sobbing.
This is my favorite book and the movie is beautiful. I cry harder each time I watch it because Thomas Horn is a fantastic Oskar and really makes him come to life just the way I always imagined it. I just want to hug him.
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25 1 / 2012
"When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me.
A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did.
Where the smoke from the chimney ended.
How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
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21 1 / 2012
Finally, after waiting 10 months since I found out it was going to be a movie, I saw “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
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24 12 / 2011
"Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped."
(Source: cascade-dreams)
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10 12 / 2011
"He had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn’t stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn’t hope."
(via loveyourchaos)
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27 10 / 2011
"I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want."
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02 7 / 2011
"He was an intellectual, although he wasn’t important, maybe he would have been important if he had lived longer, maybe great books were coiled within him like springs…"
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26 5 / 2011
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
(Source: quote-book)
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28 3 / 2011
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close films around Brooklyn
evan:
This Gothamist article only mentions Brooklyn, but it looks like scenes from the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close are also being filmed in Manhattan… directly outside Tumblr HQ, no less.
I never got around to reading that one, but Everything is Illuminated was great.
I also love how Safran Foer is widely believed to be the Pintchik Oracle…
YESSSSSSSSS
This could either be very good or very bad.
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