Mahsa’s Reviews > All the Light We Cannot See > Status Update

"We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs."
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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?"

"What I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel."

- "Do you ever wish," whispers Werner, "that you didn't have to go back?"
+ "Father needs me to be at Schulpforta. Mother too. It doesn't matter what I want."
- "Of course it matters. I want to be an engineer. And you want to study birds. Be like that American painter in the swamps. Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?"

"A scientist's work is determined by two things. His interests and the interests of his time."

"Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved."