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

"I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

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

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."