All the Light - Quotes and Themes

Question 1

Patience - Von Rumpel

Answer 1

“Waiting… is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.” - Von Rumpel (Museum)

Question 2

Strategy - Von Rumpel

Answer 2

“See obstacles as opportunities” - Von Rumpel

Question 3

Nationalism - Bastian

Answer 3

“In the end, we all come home to the fuhrer” - Bastian

Question 4

Weakness - Frederick

Answer 4

“Some people are weak in some ways sir. Others in other ways” - Frederick

Question 5

Conformity - Werner

Answer 5

“Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right” - Werner
“Werner opens his mouth but closes it again” - Werner
“There is no deviating now” - Werner

Question 6

Strength - Frederick

Answer 6

“Frederick is stronger than he is in every imaginable way.” - Werner

Question 7

Life and Death - Von Rumpel

Answer 7

“Only a matter of time until the black vine chokes off his heart” - Von Rumpel

Question 8

Light and Darkness - Werner

Answer 8

“Even total darkness is not quite darkness” - Werner

Question 9

Brutality of War - Etienne

Answer 9

“He was not the same as when he left” - Etienne

Question 10

Brutality of War - Marie Laure

Answer 10

“Fourteen year olds dies the same as anybody else” - Marie Laure

Question 11

Brutality of War - Volkheimer

Answer 11

“He was just a boy. They all were” - Volkheimer

Question 12

Fate - Werner

Answer 12

“The only place your brother is going … is to the mines” - Werner

Question 13

Characterisation - Marie Laure

Answer 13

“She cannot” - Marie Laure

Question 14

Life - Marie Laure

Answer 14

“Marie-Laure begins to feel that her life, like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has been interrupted halfway through” - Marie Laure

Question 15

Characterisation - Volkheimer

Answer 15

“They call him the Giant” - Volkheimer

Question 16

Communication - General

Answer 16

“It ties a million ears to a single mouth” - Radio

Question 17

Vision - Henri

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Vision - Frederick

Answer 18

“He sees what other people don’t” - Frederick

Question 19

Understanding - Jutta

Answer 19

“How did Jutta understand so much about how the world worked? While he knew so little?” - Werner (About Jutta)

Question 20

Choice - Marie Laure

Answer 20

“It is not bravery; I have no choice, I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” - Marie-Laure

Question 21

Choice - Werner

Answer 21

“Your problem, Werner, is that you still believe you own your life” - Jutta (to Werner)
“I cannot go home… and I cannot stay” - Werner

Question 22

Life and Death - Etienne

Answer 22

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die” - Manec (about Etienne)

Question 23

Conformity - Jutta

Answer 23

“Is it right to do something only because everyone else is doing it” - Jutta (to Werner)

Question 24

Family - Werner

Answer 24

“Think of your sister” - Volkheimer (to Werner)

Question 25

Conformity - General

Answer 25

"live faithfully, fight bravely and die laughing"

Question 26

Choice - Daniel

Answer 26

"I will never leave you, not in a million years" - Daniel LeBlanc

Question 27

Morality - Frederick

Answer 27

"He is already finished sir" - Frederick (Not throwing bucket at escaped prisoner)

Question 28

Morality - Volkheimer

Answer 28

"Decency does not matter to them" - Volkheimer

Question 29

Conformity - Manec

Answer 29

"Doing nothing is as good as collaborating" - Madame Manec (To Etienne) "The frog cooks" - Manec (Abt Etienne doing nothing)

Question 30

Grief - Etienne

Answer 30

"Madame is dead, Madame is dead" - Etienne

Question 31

Life and Death - General

Answer 31

"to lose their boots, means they will die" - Prisoners

Question 32

Morality - Von Rumpel

Answer 32

"[good food] is what separates civilized man from the barbarian" - Von Rumpel

Question 33

Light and Darkness - Marie Laure

Answer 33

"Now her world has turned grey" - Marie-Laure

Question 34

Good vs Evil - Marie Laure

Answer 34

"We are the good guys, aren't we uncle?" "I hope so, I hope we are" - Marie-Laure and Etienne

Question 35

Light and Darkness - General

Answer 35

"All of light is invisible"

Question 36

Malevolence - Von Rumpel

Answer 36

"But Von Rumpel is the predator here" - Von Rumpel

Question 37

Maturity - Marie Laure

Answer 37

"We all grew up before we were grown up" - Marie-Laure

Question 38

Logic and Reason - Marie Laure

Answer 38

"Inside her head, her father has gone quiet" - Marie Laure

Question 39

Nationalism - Werner

Answer 39

“Never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded. Never has he felt such a hunger to belong” - Werner

Question 40

Betrayal - Claude Levitte

Answer 40

"Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners ... Something his own country has lacked"

Question 41

Opportunity - Claude Levitte

Answer 41

"This too could be an opportunity"