And yes, I know what the Holy Book says—but does it not also tell us to use our eyes and our hearts? How can one say Paradise lies under the feet of a mother if one may steal away the child in her arms?


“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

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