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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ebc37ba | You know how diamonds--how all crystals--grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b427dc7 | He says, "You are very brave." She lowers the bucket. "What is your name?" He tells her. She says, "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?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 7b386fc | There was a man who used that transmitter you have. Who broadcast lessons about science. When I was a boy. I used to listen to them with my sister." "That was the voice of my grandfather. You heard him?" "Many times. We loved them." The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like med.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 0f0083d | If only she had begged him to stay. Now everything in the house scares her: the creaking stairs, shuttered windows, empty rooms. The clutter and silence. Etienne tries performing silly experiments to cheer her: a vinegar volcano, a tornado in a bottle. "Can you hear it, Marie? Spinning in there?" She does not feign interest. Madame Manec brings her omelets, cassoulet, brochettes of fish, fabricating miracles out of ration tickets and the dr.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1491598 | He says, "You are very brave." She lowers the bucket. "What is your name?" He tells her. She says, "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?" He says, "Not in years. But today. Today maybe I did." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 638445a | She reaches for his hand, sets something in his palm, and squeezes his hand into a fist. "Goodbye, Werner." "Goodbye, Marie-Laure." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1d43ede | In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. And Madame Manec: Don't you want to be alive before you die? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 5c1ff8e | Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 15ffaf7 | Five boys later, it is Frederick's turn. Frederick, who clearly cannot see well without his glasses. Who has not been cheering when each bucketful of water finds its mark. Who is frowning at the prisoner as though he recognizes something there. And Werner knows what Frederick is going to do. Frederick has to be nudged forward by the boy behind him. The upperclassman hands him a bucket and Frederick pours it out on the ground. Bastian steps .. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 766dee2 | But he didn't have language for what he really wanted to say; he couldn't explain how her wildness that day, on the road, had thrilled him as much as it terrified him. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| d3389da | Maybe living was no more than getting swept over a riverbed and eventually out to sea, no choices to make, only the vast, formless ocean ahead, the frothing waves, the lightless tomb of its depths. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 3500ca3 | She wants very badly for her father to say, Yes, that's it absolutely, ma cherie, but he says nothing. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 32e4811 | Tucked between the last two pages, she finds an old sealed envelope. He has written For Frederick across the front. Frederick: the bunkmate Werner used to write about, the boy who loved birds. He sees what other people don't. What the war did to dreamers. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| c0cdb70 | sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. Before dark, a well-dressed man with a prosthetic leg boards the train. He sits beside her and lights a cigarette. Jutta clutches her bag between her knees; she is certain that he was wounded in the war, that he will try to start a conversation, that her deficient French will betray her. Or that Max will say something. Or that t.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b77889a | He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. Some boys talk in whispers, some sit alone, some gulp food as if they have not eaten in days. Through three arched windows, dawn sends a sheaf of hallowed golden rays. Frederick flutters his fingers and asks, "Do you like birds?" "Sure." "Do you know about hooded crows?" | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b6a8c2c | Marie-Laure sits among them, wondering who will cave, who will tattle, who will be the bravest. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a1af3fe | That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up--that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city--intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| bb1b183 | That afternoon, long after the stool has been put away and the waltzes have stopped, while Werner sits with his transceiver listening to nothing, a little redheaded girl in a maroon cape emerges from a doorway, maybe six or seven years old, small for her age, with big clear eyes that remind him of Jutta's. She runs across the street to the park and plays there alone, beneath the budding trees, while her mother stands on the corner and bites.. | war | Anthony Doerr | |
| b1ed0d9 | He says, "This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed." He listens to her breathe. "So I said, 'Oh, we can make our own bed.' And he said, 'Right, I'll get you some nails and wood.'" Marie-Laure still does not smile." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e098b9c | The weather in this place: you can feel it between your fingers. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 84acbc5 | And once we cease to value the public over the private, surely we shall come in time to have difficulty seeing just why we should value law (the public good par excellence) over force. | Tony Judt | ||
| bd0610f | In the eyes of Hayek and his contemporaries, the European tragedy had thus been brought about by the shortcomings of the Left: first through its inability to achieve its objectives and then thanks to its failure to withstand the challenge from the Right. Each of them, albeit in different ways, arrived at the same conclusion: the best--indeed the only--way to defend liberalism and an open society was to keep the state out of economic life. | Tony Judt | ||
| f865703 | the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent--however irritating it may be when taken to extremes--is the very lifeblood of an open society. We need people who make a virtue of opposing mainstream opinion. | Tony Judt | ||
| e9ebf59 | Edmund Burke in his critique of the French Revolution. Any society, he wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which destroys the fabric of its state, must soon be "disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality"." | Tony Judt | ||
| 348e418 | Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another. | Tony Judt | ||
| 3f4332b | Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts: of clothes, shoes, food, rent support or children's school supplies. It is, quite simply, humiliating. | Tony Judt | ||
| 0439d91 | O amor e aquele estado em que somos nos proprios com mais satisfacao. O amor consiste em deixar aos amados espaco para que sejam eles proprios ao mesmo tempo que se lhes da a seguranca no seio da qual esse eu possa florescer. | Tony Judt | ||
| 5dbed68 | Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and postwar Europe, were distinctly younger than those who had gone before. Rather than resign themselves, young people are more likely to look at a problem and demand that it be solved. | Tony Judt | ||
| eaa44e4 | Ovsem psat a vyjadrovat se s plnym vedomim o svem omezenem vlivu je u intelektualu, alespon podle prvniho zdani, vyjimecne bezucelny podnik - a pritom je to to nejlepsi, v co muzeme doufat. | Tony Judt | ||
| 740fc7b | I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another--where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal condition of life. Such places once abounded. Well into the twentieth century there were many cities comprising multiple communities and languages--often mutually antagonistic, occasionally clashing, but somehow coexisting. Sarajevo was one, Al.. | Tony Judt | ||
| 8b5b4ad | We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'. | Tony Judt | ||
| 40f3842 | But republics and democracies exist only by virtue of the engagement of their citizens in the management of public affairs. If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants. | Tony Judt | ||
| 4933ec8 | Our problem is to work out a social organization which shall be as efficient as possible without offending our notions of a satisfactory way of life." --JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES" | Tony Judt | ||
| dbf9bf6 | A democracy of permanent consensus will not long remain a democracy. | Tony Judt | ||
| e8469b2 | True, many radicals of the '60s were quite enthusiastic supporters of imposed choices, but only when these affected distant peoples of whom they knew little. | Tony Judt | ||
| 79469d7 | What is the measurable cost of depriving isolated citizens of access to metropolitan resources? How much are we willing to pay for a good society? | Tony Judt | ||
| 8ebef10 | War, in short, concentrated the mind. It had proven possible to convert a whole country into a war machine around a war economy; why then, people asked, could something similar not be accomplished in pursuit of peace? There was no convincing answer. | Tony Judt | ||
| 04de102 | However, poverty--whether measured by infant mortality, life expectancy, access to medicine and regular employment or simple inability to purchase basic necessities--has increased steadily since the 1970s | Tony Judt | ||
| 55b3462 | The social question is back on the agenda. | Tony Judt | ||
| 6a287eb | The Iraq war saw the overwhelming majority of British and American public commentators abandon all pretense at independent thought and toe the government line. | Tony Judt | ||
| 7a594dd | During the long century of constitutional liberalism, from Gladstone to LBJ, Western democracies were led by a distinctly superior class of statesmen. | Tony Judt | ||
| a494cfb | People who live in private spaces contribute actively to the dilution and corrosion of the public space. In other words, they exacerbate the circumstances which drove them to retreat in the first place. | Tony Judt | ||
| ca31a9d | It is perhaps worth noting here that even Hayek cannot be held responsible for the ideological simplifications of his acolytes. Like Keynes, he regarded economics as an interpretive science, not amenable to prediction or precision. | Tony Judt | ||
| 5bb081d | If we don't respect public goods; if we permit or encourage the privatization of public space, resources and services; if we enthusiastically support the propensity of a younger generation to look exclusively to their own needs: then we should not be surprised to find a steady falling-away from civic engagement in public decision-making. | Tony Judt |