455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

Loneliness is just a thing that I’m not personally interested in. So far, it hasn’t been on my docket of things to write about.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that’s begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

There are times when I am concerned about Toph’s expression when I’m really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything – an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion – but I know well enough that it is awe.

Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in east-central Colombia, with forty-two locals we hadn’t yet met. It was a clear and eyeblue day, that day, as was the first day of this story, a few years ago in January, on Chicago’s North Side, in the opulent shadow of Wrigley and with the wind coming low and searching off the jagged half-frozen lake.

It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That’s the best you can do.

Like I don’t know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I’m alive. Maybe that’s what’s missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon.

He had had a dream, and dreams are heavy things, requiring constant care and pruning.