Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Movie Quotes
Quotes Compiled by Stacey Tuttle
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- Oskar Schell: “There are more people alive now than all the dead people in all of history. But the number of people dying is growing.”
- Oskar: “If you don’t tell me what I’m looking for then how will I ever be right?”
- Dad, Thomas Schell: “Well, another way of looking at it is how will you ever be wrong?”
- Thomas Schell: “As with anything, if you want to believe, you can find evidence.”
- Thomas Schell: “You never know what a key is going to fit.”
- Oskar Schell: “People aren’t like numbers. Their more like letters and those letters want to be stories.”
- The Renter / Grandfather: “Sometimes we have to face our fears.”
- The Renter: “Think about nothing.”
- Oskar: “That’s an oxymoron. Like now then.”
- Oskar: “Even though he never said a word, for the first time since Dad died, I felt like I had someone to talk to.”
- William Black: “I’m sorry. I know you’ve been looking for something and this isn’t it.”
- Oskar – regarding his Dad’s calls home on 9-11: “He needed me and I couldn’t pick it up.”
- Oskar: “He said, ‘Are you there?’ He could have said ‘Is anyone there?’ But I think he knew. I think he knew I was there and wanted to give me time to be brave enough to answer.”
- Oskar to William Black: “Do you forgive me?”
- William Black: “For not picking up?”
- Oskar: “For not being able to tell anyone.”
- William: “Of course I forgive you.”
- Oskar: “I can’t tell you how much better that makes me feel.”
- Oskar to his mom, Linda Schell: “I promise I’ll be better soon. I promise you, I’ll be normal.”
- Linda/mom: “That’s the last thing I want. You are perfect.”
- Oskar to his mom: “You were snooping on me?”
- Mom: “I was searching for you.”
- Mom/Linda: “ I knew you had to make sense of things. And I had to go with you.”
- Oskar: “I thought only Dad could think like me.”
- Oskar: “I am even glad to have my disappointment which is better than having nothing.”