All the Light We Cannot See is a war novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Profoundly inspirational All the Light We Cannot See quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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What the war did to dreamers. Part 12
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. 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? Part 10
Don’t you want to be alive before you die? 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. Part 1
But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same? Anthony Doerr
It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system? You try. Part 5
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? Anthony Doerr
Time is a slippery thing lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Part 9
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. Anthony Doerr
War, Etienne thinks distantly, is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. Part 9
All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready? Anthony Doerr
The war that killed your grandfather killed sixteen million others. One and a half million French boys alone, most of them younger than I was. Two million on the German side. March the dead in a single file line, and for eleven days and eleven nights, they’d walk past our door. Part 7
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? Anthony Doerr
Some griefs can never be put right. Part 12
We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. Anthony Doerr
Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. Part 13
How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? Anthony Doerr
We all grew up before we were grown up. Part 12
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us. Anthony Doerr
Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be? Part 5
A real diamond is never perfect. Anthony Doerr
All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready? Part 10
What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. Anthony Doerr
See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations. Part 7
It’s embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. Anthony Doerr
They’ll say you’re too little, Werner, that you’re from nowhere, that you shouldn’t dream big. But I believe in you. I think you’ll do something great. Part 1
Your problem, Werner, says Frederick, is that you still believe you own your life. Anthony Doerr
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. Part 5
Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways. Anthony Doerr
Who knew love could kill you? Part 5
His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers. Anthony Doerr
Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters. Part 7
A line comes back to Marie Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Anthony Doerr
Don’t you want to be alive before you die? Part 5
Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Anthony Doerr
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth. Part 7
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that. Anthony Doerr
What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. Part 1
What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models. None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. Anthony Doerr
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? Part 1
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. Anthony Doerr
Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key. Part 3
The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? Anthony Doerr
Every rumor carries a seed of truth. Part 5
She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog. Anthony Doerr
A real diamond is never perfect. Part 5
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop. Anthony Doerr
Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing. Part 5
Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Anthony Doerr
