I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."
"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."
"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."
"It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine."
"I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky."
"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."
"With writing, we have second chances."