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

"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."

"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."

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

"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."