Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, a... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"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."

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

"...people with nothing to declare carry the most."

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

"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?"