Quotes by Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not brave — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
I am only alive because I have not yet died. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
One night he sits up. In cots around him are a few dozen sick or wounded. A warm September wind pours across the country — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
What the war did to dreamers. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big old cedars at the entr — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
That afternoon, long after the stool has been put away and the waltzes have stopped, while Werner sits with his transcei — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
What the war did to the dreamers. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last song — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the f — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio stamped with an — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
And one cold Tuesday in December, when Marie-Laure has been blind for over a year, her father walks her up rue Cuvier to — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. — Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See