anthony doerr

“ Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing. ”

“ Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. ”

“ Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, seeps from gutters. ”

“ What the war did to dreamers. ”

“ We all grew up before we were grown up. ”

“ Don't you want to be alive before you die? ”

“ When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? ”

“ Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be? ”

“ Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make because they lead little by little to the truth. ”

“ You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. ”