December 2011
1 post
Oh jeez.
I haven’t posted in forever guys. Sorry!
February 2011
8 posts
suchasoftersin asked: I plan on getting a tattoo from ELAIC. if I got a picture of it, would it be allowed to be posted here?
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“…because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
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“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island,...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
Hey guys!
Sorry I haven’t been posting lately. My laptop recently broke so I only have access to my old desktop which doesn’t exactly work properly. I’ll update more as soon as I can!
Thanks for following! <3
~Ashley
January 2011
55 posts
sleepingintheculdesac asked: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is my favorite novel of all time, no exaggeration. It's helped me get through some incredibly rough times (no pun intended). Just wanted to say thank you. :)
“Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I knew I was about to destroy what she’d been able to rebuild, but I had only...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I invented a book that listed every word in every language. It wouldn’t be a...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I used to tuck her … but now she tucked my feelings into the woven...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
“When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Words never mean what we want them to mean.”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I felt that night, on the stage, incredibly close to everything in the universe,...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“It feels like a moment I’ve lived a thousand times before, as if...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer
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onlythecoolestkids asked: Wow. This is now my new favourite tumblr.
JSF is quite possibly one of my favourite humans on earth.
JSF is quite possibly one of my favourite humans on earth.
“Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for...”
– Everything Is Illuminated // Jonathan Safran Foer (via heavenforbidd)
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that,...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer 