I just finished reading, "Extremely Loud, and Incredibly Close"by Jonathan Safran Foer. What a book. I read it in the span of 5 hours. The fact that it deals with today's present, as well as 9/11 through the eyes of a nine year old, makes it astounding, yet it's still under the radar. This book has the potential to be recreated by borders in it's 'masterpiece classics'. Yes.
Go buy and it read it, NOW.

“Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are.”



“If I’d been somone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”



“I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.”



“..Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it..”



“I should have drowned us there in the room, ended our suffering, they would have found us floating face-down in two thousand white pages, or buried under the salt of my evaporated tears…”



“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog followed a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I cried over it…I spent my life learning to feel less.”