All the light we cannot see quotes Flashcards
quote on freewill
“Your problem, Werner… is that you still believe you own your own life”
quote on werner being naive of sulpforta and wanting to just learn about engineering
“But maybe I’ll learn something…maybe they’ll teach me to be a proper engineer”
quote on fate by marie laure (cause and effect)
“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has it’s solution”
quote on Werner’s predetermined fate of working in the mines
The only place your brother is going, little girl, is into the mines…. same as every other boy in this house”
quote on stone representing humanity
“A real diamond is never perfect”
quote on werner explaining his duty as a german boy
“We all have parts to play, little sister”
quote on fedrick refusing to throw water on prisoner and sticking to his morals
“i will not”
quote on fedrick cheating his fate
“I barely hit anything in marksmanship.”
quote on werner promising jutta but ultimately lying
“Don’t tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don’t lie to me.”
quote on werner’s subconsious morality
“Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good…and yet.. he feels he is betraying something”
quote on lack of humanity,people not stopping to realise war impacts
“And a million men ready to set down their lives for it’”
quote on werner’s conflicting morals and safety when fredrick is being beat up
‘Werner opens his mouth but closes it again; he drowns; he shuts his eyes, his mind’
quote on werner’s conflicting morals and safety when fredrick is being beat up extended - he is frozen
‘every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong. But here it is right’.
quote on paris labeling germany as the enemy and jutta confused
“Broadcasts from Paris. They’d say the opposite of everything…They’d say we were devils.”
quote on war situation for german boys gccs
“Everything is glory and country and competition and sacrifice”
quote on werner’s first encounter with a radio
‘air streaming with possibility’
quote on werner being stuck and thinking of his sister to remain sane
‘Werner thinks of his childhood’
‘your sister, says Volkheimer. Think of your sister’
quote on marie laure telling werner how her blindness doesnt make her brave
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
quote on werner pretending there is no choices but ultimately realises that there always were
“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”
quote on daniel’s love for marie-Laure
“He says he will never leave her, not in a million years “
quote on daniel saying marie -laure’s blindness not being a curse
“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good” “but no curses”
quote on how doerr depicts luck
“A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure”
quote on how war effects time
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
quote on Jutta claiming Werner will turn into the typical nazi soldier
“you’ll become just like Hans and Herribett”
