There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"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?"

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

"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."

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

"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."