Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Important Quotes

#1. A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#2. I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial.

Dorothy Koomson

#3. At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#4. I won't be able to see heaven if I don't die first, right?

Jessamine Verzosa

#5. Rowan was cocky, impatient, and downright infuriating. He winked and my stomach felt like a hundred dragonflies were doing summersaults. Nope, I refuse to be attracted to him.

Stacey O'Neale

#6. John Watson, a leading childcare authority in the 1920s, sternly advised parents, 'Never hug and kiss [your children], never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning.'22

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

Peter Singer