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

"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

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

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

"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."

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