She died in my arms, saying, "I don't want to die."That is w... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."

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

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

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

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