Anthony Doerr

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

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

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

“What the war did to dreamers.”

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is.”

“Is it right to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”

“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”

“A real diamond is never perfect.”

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

“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?”

“The things that look fixed are not fixed.”

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”

“Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”

“Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth.”

“To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.”

“Books are a way we leave a mark on the world, aren't they? They are the only way we can transcend death.”

“Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms.”