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

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

"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."

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

"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?"