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.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Let love write on you for awhile.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying. I am a bad person. I don't care. I don't care what you are.