"All the Light We Cannot See" Quotes

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson.

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

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 meanings are extinguished and reassembled.

It's not that we have to be brave all the time, but we have to be brave for one another.

He feels a smile blooming on his face, but it's a strange smile, like it doesn't belong to him.

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.

You know, they say that people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they're more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.