Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't t... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"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."

"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?"

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"

"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

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