I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

"I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story."

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum."