It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it. - Dave Eggers
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) - Dave Eggers
This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. - Dave Eggers
It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K. - Dave Eggers
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned - Dave Eggers
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. - Dave Eggers
I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost. - Dave Eggers
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? - Dave Eggers
We are unusual and tragic and alive. - Dave Eggers