All the light we cannot see quotes

Question 1

quote on freewill

Answer 1

“Your problem, Werner… is that you still believe you own your own life”

Question 2

quote on werner being naive of sulpforta and wanting to just learn about engineering

Answer 2

“But maybe I’ll learn something…maybe they’ll teach me to be a proper engineer”

Question 3

quote on fate by marie laure (cause and effect)

Answer 3

“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has it’s solution”

Question 4

quote on Werner’s predetermined fate of working in the mines

Answer 4

The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines…. same as every other boy in this house”

Question 5

quote on stone representing humanity

Answer 5

“A real diamond is never perfect”

Question 6

quote on werner explaining his duty as a german boy

Answer 6

“We all have parts to play, little sister”

Question 7

quote on fedrick refusing to throw water on prisoner and sticking to his morals

Answer 7

“i will not”

Question 8

quote on fedrick cheating his fate

Answer 8

“I barely hit anything in marksmanship.”

Question 9

quote on werner promising jutta but ultimately lying

Answer 9

“Don’t tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don’t lie to me.”

Question 10

quote on werner’s subconsious morality

Answer 10

“Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good…and yet.. he feels he is betraying something”

Question 11

quote on lack of humanity,people not stopping to realise war impacts

Answer 11

“And a million men ready to set down their lives for it’”

Question 12

quote on werner’s conflicting morals and safety when fredrick is being beat up

Answer 12

‘Werner opens his mouth but closes it again; he drowns; he shuts his eyes, his mind’

Question 13

quote on werner’s conflicting morals and safety when fredrick is being beat up extended - he is frozen

Answer 13

‘every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong. But here it is right’.

Question 14

quote on paris labeling germany as the enemy and jutta confused

Answer 14

“Broadcasts from Paris. They’d say the opposite of everything…They’d say we were devils.”

Question 15

quote on war situation for german boys gccs

Answer 15

“Everything is glory and country and competition and sacrifice”

Question 16

quote on werner’s first encounter with a radio

Answer 16

‘air streaming with possibility’

Question 17

quote on werner being stuck and thinking of his sister to remain sane

Answer 17

‘Werner thinks of his childhood’

‘your sister, says Volkheimer. Think of your sister’

Question 18

quote on marie laure telling werner how her blindness doesnt make her brave

Answer 18

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”

Question 19

quote on werner pretending there is no choices but ultimately realises that there always were

Answer 19

“Frederick said we don’t have choices, don’t own our own lives, but in the end it was Werner who pretended there were no choices”

Question 20

quote on daniel’s love for marie-Laure

Answer 20

“He says he will never leave her, not in a million years “

Question 21

quote on daniel saying marie -laure’s blindness not being a curse

Answer 21

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good” “but no curses”

Question 22

quote on how doerr depicts luck

Answer 22

“A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure”

Question 23

quote on how war effects time

Answer 23

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

Question 24

quote on Jutta claiming Werner will turn into the typical nazi soldier

Answer 24

“you’ll become just like Hans and Herribett”

Question 25

quote on love and family having consequences

Answer 25

‘Who knew love could kill you?’

Question 26

quote on war destorying hope and dreams

Answer 26

“What the war did to dreamers.”

Question 27

quote on werner finally living his life when he saves Marie-Laure

Answer 27

“Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did.”

Question 28

quote on madame manec feeling alive after years

Answer 28

“Seventy-six years old… and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”

Question 29

quote on werner resenting his pure human qualities and Jutta holding him back

Answer 29

“Perhaps she’s the impurity in him…Perhaps she’s the only thing keeping him from surrendering totally.”

Question 30

quote on werner protecting his sister by destroying the radio even though she saw it as a betrayal, werner sticking to his morals

Answer 30

“He…takes the little shortwave radio’ ‘and crushes it with a brick’

Question 31

quote on werner missing jutta and how she is able to live her life with morals

Answer 31

“He misses Jutta; her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognise what is right.”

Question 32

quote on werner wanting to be apart of something

Answer 32

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

Question 33

quote on death of innocent girl wearing the red marron cape

Answer 33

“The dead Viennese girl that haunts him every night”

Question 34

quote on werner chosing to lie about hearing Etiennes’ boardcast

Answer 34

“Werner heard the voice everyone was listening for, and what did he do? Lied.”

Question 35

quote on the morals and the nature of nazi ideology

Answer 35

“Decency does not matter to them.”

Question 36

quote on how hope is depicted by marie-laure

Answer 36

“But to raise one’s hopes is to risk their falling further.

Question 37

quote on how history is biased and how society is self interest based

Answer 37

“Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.”

Question 38

quote on Jutta outlining Werner’s ignorance towards Sulpforta dont you…

Answer 38

“All you want to do are mathematics problems… Play with radios. Don’t you want to understand what’s happening?”

Question 39

quote on werner’s father being trapped in the mines

Answer 39

“His father down there, a mile beneath the house. Body never recovered. Haunting the tunnels still.”