Welcome back to Thursday Quotables! This weekly feature is the place to highlight a great quote, line, or passage discovered during your reading each week. Whether it’s something funny, startling, gut-wrenching, or just really beautifully written, Thursday Quotables is where my favorite lines of the week will be, and you’re invited to join in!
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
(published 2014 )
It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world – what pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?
Slightly gloomy, I know, but so fitting for the mood of this wonderful and beautiful book. Here’s another I really like:
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
What lines made you laugh, cry, or gasp this week? Do tell!
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
This must be such a heartfelt read! I actually want to read it for so long 🙂
I’d been meaning to read it for a while now. Luckily, my book group picked it for July, so I finally had the motivation to sit down and read it!
Definitely like the second one a little more 🙂
I love that book so much. Great quotes!
Really these are gloomy quotes, but nice all the same.
I’ve heard very nice things about these book, I might try it.
Here’s my quotable.
http://theoldshelter.com/thursday-quotables-mauds-line/
I enjoyed this book, though I had a few issues with the MC. But chatting with the author was very interesting and thought-provoking (interview will be up on my site next week 🙂 )
It’s an incredibly gorgeous book!
Talk about the ultimate pessimist! That’s what the first quote reminds me of. The second one is actually rather beautiful 🙂 I really like it. It is a bit threatening, but it’s also very beautiful in a “life is fragile” kind of way.
Have a great day,
Amy x
It’s definitely not a cheerful book, but there are some moments and descriptions that are just so beautiful!
This book is full of some of the most gorgeous lines ever!
I totally agree!
So glad to hear you’re loving this book too. Just reading these words again took me back into that sensory experience 🙂
Those quotes are quite haunting, I love them! Definitely going to have to give that book a go.
Sinead @ Less Reality More Books
It’s such a lovely book. I hope you give it a try!