Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the… — Jonathan Safran Foer · Skopia

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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close · 2005

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Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

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