There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising — Jonathan Safran Foer

"I hope you never love anything as much as I love you. (p. 73)"

"I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasnt the world, it wasnt the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I dont know, but its so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, Ive thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)"

"Words never mean what we want them to mean."

"She wants to know if I love her, thats all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. (p. 130)"

"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives Im not living. (p. 113)"

"I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world."