Quotes for All the Light We Cannot See

• “Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Imperative Sentencing and Parallelism
• “A real diamond is never perfect.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Paradox and Oxymoron
• “All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Allusion and Implied Metaphor
• “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Rhetorical Question and Oxymoron
• “Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Parallelism and Antithesis
• “We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Anaphora and Symbolism
• “Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Metaphor and Personification
• “Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Metaphor and Paradox
• “War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Symbolism and Juxtaposition
• “Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”

  
  

  Literary Devices: Parallelism and Irony