Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering,

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”