"Love is... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?"

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

“We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.”

“It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.”

“For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.”

“There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.”

“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.”

“I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.”

“I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.”