Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

I miss you already. I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

[...] it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

— I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head from something you do not want.

So what about skyscrapers for dead people that were built down?

I don’t believe in God, but I believe that things are extremely complicated.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?