...people with nothing to declare carry the most. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"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."

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

"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?"

"I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."