“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
-All the Light We Cannot See Quotes by Anthony Doerr
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”’
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“What the war did to dreamers.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”
-All the Light We Cannot See quotes by Anthony Doerr
“Seventy-six years old,” she whispers, “and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“It’s embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“A real diamond is never perfect.”
-All the Light We Cannot See quotes by Anthony Doerr
“Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
“Every rumor carries a seed of truth.”
-All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr