All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Did they hear? Can they hear his heart hammering right now against his ribs? There’s the rain, falling lightly past the high houses. There’s Volkheimer, his chin resting on the acreage of his chest. Frederick said we don’t have choices, don’t own our lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices, Werner who watched Frederi
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So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
All the light we cannot see.
Werner looks at the blue of the walls and thinks of Birds of America, yellow-crowned night heron, Kentucky warbler, scarlet tanager, bird after glorious bird, and Frederick’s gaze remains stuck in some terrible middle ground, each eye a stagnant pool into which Werner cannot bear to look.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
We often think of the harm that the Nazis brought to the Jews and elsewhere in the world through the war. It's interesting to get the sympathetic view of the young men who become chewed up by the machine from the inside. To see their innocence taken bit by bit.
There is pride, too, though—pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daught
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A moan shudders through the rubble above them, and in the darkness Werner feels as if he is trapped inside the Nautilus, twenty meters down, while the tentacles of a dozen angry kraken lash its hull. He knows the transmitter must be high in the house. Close to the shelling. He says, “I saved her only to hear her die.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
The lift is out of order, so he walks up.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
A note about the decay of Berlin. The negative entropy element continues to build.
It seems to Werner that in the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Werner turns the fine-tune dial fractionally, and abruptly the voice booms into his ears, Dvee-nat-set, shayst-nat-set, davt-set-adeen, nonsense, terrible nonsense, pipelined directly into his head; it’s like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing,
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