There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they woul... - 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."

"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?"

"In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots."

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

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