"I don’t care what you earn, where you live, what you drive,
whether you’re gay or straight, fat or thin, tall or short,
beautiful or average, rich or poor, smart or not.
If you’re my friend, you’re my friend – I accept you."
"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close And Incredibly Close
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions —the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge