I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything - Jonathan Safran Foer

I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's 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, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. (p. 17)

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.