...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."

"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?"

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

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