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

> She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. (p. 130)

- 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)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Safran_Foer#Extremely_Loud_and_Incredibly_Close_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/she-wants-to-know

## More from this book

> It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time? (p. 279)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/it-broke-my-heart.md)

> "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true." (p. 43)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/why-do-beautiful.md)

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

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/i-spent-my-life.md)