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“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“Just when we think we have a system,… the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.”

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“And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

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“Who knew love could kill you?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“all I feel sure of are questions.”

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