Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipsh... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"

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

"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."

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."