I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something