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

"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"

"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."

"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"

"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

"When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."