The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!"

"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."

"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?"

"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."