Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to... - Jonathan Safran Foer

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."

"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me"

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."

"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."