Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

I wanted to hit him. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to shout myself into his ear.

Oskar Schell: If the sun were to explode, you wouldn't even know about it for 8 minutes because thats how long it takes for light to travel to us. For eight minutes the world would still be bright and it would still feel warm. It was a year since my dad died and I could feel my eight minutes with him... were running out.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either.