I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing so... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time."

"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."

"I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."

"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."