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I just reread Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (whom I miss so) recently and thought I'd share these favorites:

"Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it."

"I couldn't keep my hands to myself, the pastels in long boxes, the palette knives, the handmade papers hanging on rolls, I tested every sample, I wrote my name in blue pen and in green oil stick, in orange crayon and in charcoal, it felt like I was signing the contract of my life."

When the father is missing... "It makes me sick. Physical things Forty years of loving someone becomes staple and tape."