“She said, ‘Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.’ I asked her what ‘idealistic’ meant. ‘It means you live by what you think is right.’ ‘You don’t do that anymore?’ ‘There are questions I don’t ask anymore.’”

—from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via moviescriptendings) (via breathsoftruth)