All the Light - Quotes and Themes Flashcards
Patience - Von Rumpel
“Waiting… is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.” - Von Rumpel (Museum)
Strategy - Von Rumpel
“See obstacles as opportunities” - Von Rumpel
Nationalism - Bastian
“In the end, we all come home to the fuhrer” - Bastian
Weakness - Frederick
“Some people are weak in some ways sir. Others in other ways” - Frederick
Conformity - Werner
“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
Strength - Frederick
“Frederick is stronger than he is in every imaginable way.” - Werner
Life and Death - Von Rumpel
“Only a matter of time until the black vine chokes off his heart” - Von Rumpel
Light and Darkness - Werner
“Even total darkness is not quite darkness” - Werner
Brutality of War - Etienne
“He was not the same as when he left” - Etienne
Brutality of War - Marie Laure
“Fourteen year olds dies the same as anybody else” - Marie Laure
Brutality of War - Volkheimer
“He was just a boy. They all were” - Volkheimer
Fate - Werner
“The only place your brother is going … is to the mines” - Werner
Characterisation - Marie Laure
“She cannot” - Marie Laure
Life - Marie Laure
“Marie-Laure begins to feel that her life, like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has been interrupted halfway through” - Marie Laure
Characterisation - Volkheimer
“They call him the Giant” - Volkheimer
Communication - General
“It ties a million ears to a single mouth” - Radio
Vision - Henri
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever” - Henri LeBlanc
Vision - Frederick
“He sees what other people don’t” - Frederick
Understanding - Jutta
“How did Jutta understand so much about how the world worked? While he knew so little?” - Werner (About Jutta)
Choice - Marie Laure
“It is not bravery; I have no choice, I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” - Marie-Laure
Choice - Werner
“Your problem, Werner, is that you still believe you own your life” - Jutta (to Werner)
“I cannot go home… and I cannot stay” - Werner
Life and Death - Etienne
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die” - Manec (about Etienne)
Conformity - Jutta
“Is it right to do something only because everyone else is doing it” - Jutta (to Werner)
Family - Werner
“Think of your sister” - Volkheimer (to Werner)
Conformity - General
“live faithfully, fight bravely and die laughing”
Choice - Daniel
“I will never leave you, not in a million years” - Daniel LeBlanc
Morality - Frederick
“He is already finished sir” - Frederick (Not throwing bucket at escaped prisoner)
Morality - Volkheimer
“Decency does not matter to them” - Volkheimer
Conformity - Manec
“Doing nothing is as good as collaborating” - Madame Manec (To Etienne)
“The frog cooks” - Manec (Abt Etienne doing nothing)
Grief - Etienne
“Madame is dead, Madame is dead” - Etienne
Life and Death - General
“to lose their boots, means they will die” - Prisoners
Morality - Von Rumpel
“[good food] is what separates civilized man from the barbarian” - Von Rumpel
Light and Darkness - Marie Laure
“Now her world has turned grey” - Marie-Laure
Good vs Evil - Marie Laure
“We are the good guys, aren’t we uncle?” “I hope so, I hope we are” - Marie-Laure and Etienne
Light and Darkness - General
“All of light is invisible”
Malevolence - Von Rumpel
“But Von Rumpel is the predator here” - Von Rumpel
Maturity - Marie Laure
“We all grew up before we were grown up” - Marie-Laure
Logic and Reason - Marie Laure
“Inside her head, her father has gone quiet” - Marie Laure
Nationalism - Werner
“Never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded. Never has he felt such a hunger to belong” - Werner
Betrayal - Claude Levitte
“Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners … Something his own country has lacked”
Opportunity - Claude Levitte
“This too could be an opportunity”
