With writing, we have second chances. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."

"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."

"It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine."

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem."