The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. - Jonathan Safran Foer

"I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into. (p. 71)

She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore. (p. 189)