Dave Eggers citations

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”

“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

“We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.”

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.”

“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.”

“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”

“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

“Why do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because I want everyone to witness my youth

Why?
-Isn't it gorgeous?”

“Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

“I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.”

“Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.”

“I see colors like you hear jet planes.”

“Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.”

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

“Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.”

“And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.”

“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”

“Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”

“You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof.”

“Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me.."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.”