Quotes from Dave Eggers

At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days.

We discuss calling the police. We have to quickly review anything that could go wrong if we do. Are our immigration papers in order? They are. Do we have outstanding parking tickets? I have three, Achor Achor two. We calculate whether or not we have enough in checking accounts to pay the tickets if the police demand it. We decide that we do.

When we see non-normative rates of stress in a Circler or a department, we can make adjustments to workload

No man should have to endure another man quoting poetry.

Hand and I needed pants, pants to end all pants—warm and cool, breathing and trapping in, full of pockets.

Young men, come and blow things up.

This could be the cause of all modern neurosis . . . [;] the fact that we have no immovable identity, no hard facts. That everything we know as foundational truth is subject to change.

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data," Delaney said.

and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.

If you believe there's only one path to God, then you're limiting God.

You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

it seemed, had some purpose, even if that purpose was just to ask for something.

But you already know me pretty well by now! Helena said, and then directed her to her own profile page.

That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in—the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world.

I live because I do not exist.

But see how we are the same? You and I, Will? We both see strangers and we react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. We're broken when people can't meet us halfway. We can't accept the limits of normal relationships - chilly, clothed, circumscribed. Our hearts pull against their leashes, Will.

The only explanation was that she was receiving instructions from extraplanetary overlords.

We gravitate toward comfort, Josie thought, but it must be rationed. Give us one-third comfort and two-thirds chaos—that is balance.

It's a reprehensible idea that seems, on the surface, virtuous." "That describes almost everything the Every does.

Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it.

There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.