Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I am your shower curtain and I am watching you. I surround you, I shield you, and I like you. I like… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I wanted so many times while driving to flip, to skid and flip and fall from the car and have something happen.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Maybe I wanted to be crushed, too. To be ready you need to be tired, and you need to have seen a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Don't flatter yourself to think this is your doing. Your problem is that you think things have happened for the first time… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“In her life Josie had heard only one or two people apologize. Wasn't that something? Wouldn't that be significant to future anthropologists?… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
