Authors — Quotes

Dave Eggers Quotes: 9

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
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.
What is the What
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
What is the What
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.
You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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?
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned