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“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
― dave eggers

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers

“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
― Dave Eggers

“Why do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because I want everyone to witness my youth

Why?
-Isn't it gorgeous?”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”
― Dave Eggers

“Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”
― Dave Eggers

“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book.

The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“You're breaking out of character, again.”
― Dave Eggers

“This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers

“He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”
― Dave Eggers

“We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“What would happen," Zeitoun asked the captain, "if you and I went below the deck, and just went to our bedrooms and went to sleep?"

The captain gave him a quizzical look and answered that the ship would most certainly hit something -- would run aground or into a reef. In any event, disaster.

"So without a captain, the ship cannot navigate."

"Yes," the captain said, "What's your point?"

Zeitoun smiled. "Look above you, at the stars and moon. How do the stars keep their place in the sky, how does the moon rotate around the earth, the earth around the sun? Who's navigating?"

The captain smiled at Zeitoun. He'd been led into a trap.

"Without someone guiding us," Zeitoun finished, "wouldn't the stars and moon fall to earth, wouldn't the oceans overrun the land? Any vessel, any carrier of humans, needs a captain, yes?"

The captain was taken with the beauty of the metaphor, and let his silence imply surrender.”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

“Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.”
― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry

“Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?

—What weight?

—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?

—We are not vessels; we are missiles.

—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.

—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

“It all meant something. Until it didn't.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“I am the Olympics.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“I often cannot believe the things I do.”
― Dave Eggers, What Is the What

“Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone â€� you leave it there, maybe someday someone finds it useful. Sorry, people â€� we're driving through lativia and I can't reach for my state of mind. 1. Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way. 2. If you can't dodge the water, run.”
― Dave Eggers