I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."

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

"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."