Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

You will stay the same, Werner Pfennig. Even though you're often annoying. You must not change.

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

I wish I could describe how this book made me feel. It’s almost astronomical, the array of emotions and feelings that emerged straight from the soul as I flipped each page. The detail, the love, the uncertainty - to describe it with the fewest words, it’s magnificently unpredictable.

The characters, each one of them, inscribed something deep within my spirit. The love and bonding between Marie-Laure and her father, Etienne and his demons, and Werner and his sister, Frederick and his birds, and his powerful resentment towards something wrong - his power. Madam Manec with her peach jams and the big pot where she carried all the love. The big museum with its exhibits, all those herbarium sheets and fossils, and the curse of a diamond that was equivalent to eight Eiffel Towers that should've been thrown out into the deep trenches of the oceans long ago, but only an insane would throw eight Eiffel Towers into the unknown. Papa, with his crafty hands, built the whole of Paris with his bare hands. Marie-Laure is so unaware of what everything around her looks like, yet she hears the very minor details. Jutta, the little girl who had a mind of her own, who had words of her own, and her elder brother, who was nothing by himself, who really lived under the shadows of others, had a heart so weak to resent, too weak to fight, that the heart decided to do what everyone else was doing - a heart scared of rebellion. Frau Elena served the abandoned children till her very last breath, showering those nameless breathing corpses with so much love. Von Rumpel and his war - his war with the world, his quest to find the cursed diamond, his greed, his unfathomable hatred, his desire and passion for war and victory, his dying body, his quest for immortality that the diamond is rumored to confer on anyone who possesses it, his selfish greed, his undying fear of the unknown,and, his trembling fear of death.

The depths that this particular book touched are unmatchable. It feels like loose sand slipping through your fingers, and the helplessness that comes with it - the haunting beauty of the magnificent pain of separation, of lost identities, and of lost people. It’s remarkable. Anthony Doerr, you are a genius.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr // All the Light We Cannot See

i just finished all the light we cannot see on netflix, and now i’m going to be one of those annoying people who think that the book is so much better and that they prefer the book because i think the book is so much better and i prefer the book, lol.

one of my reasons is anthony doerr’s incredible prose. to this day i still remember how he compares the shadow of a nazi officer’s car to the grim reaper flying across the walls. another reason is i actually like the original ending, lol sorry. and the netflix series also almost completely erases jutta’s story, so.

anyways. i’d love to recommend the novel to anyone who hasn’t read it.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr

What do you think of the ocean? Sounds like someone breathing in their sleep. I always felt it was like the world catching its breath over and over again.

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr

Things hardly ever work on the first try. Well make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr