# Quote — Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

> Ray Black was in prison, so we weren't able to talk to him. I did some research on the internet and found out that he was in prison because he murdered two children after he raped them. There were also pictures of the dead children, and even though I knew it would only hurt me to look at them, I did. I printed them out and put them in *Stuff That Happened To Me*, right after the picture of Jean-Pierre Haigneré, the french astronaut who had to be carried from his spacecraft after returning form the MIR spacestation, because gravity isn't only what makes us fall, it's what makes our muscles strong.

- Author: [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md)
- Book: [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ray-black-was

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> I spent my life learning to feel less.
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> Every day I felt less.
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> Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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> You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

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