Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself."

"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."

"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."