Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father."

"When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore."

"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?"

"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."