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

"I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story."

"I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this."

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

"The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you."

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."