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."

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

"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."

"...and when is enough proof enough?"

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