All The Light We Cannot See
Anthony DoerrSözler ve Alıntılar
“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.”
“That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”
“A real diamond is never perfect.”
“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.”
“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”