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Quotes from You Shall Know Our Velocity! — Dave Eggers

born 1970 United States

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When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

I was a looker someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back- always everyone looking forward, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look over at you? Why would they care?

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dave Eggers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.