“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back." ”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“I would know that in any city, at an hour like this, there are people sleeping. That most people are sleeping. But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“It stopped for a minute I swear, but then the sound and pictures came back on and for two more interminable months we lived. ”

—Dave Eggers, from You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”

—Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

—Dave Eggers

“I buried the shame deep within. I burned it and danced around it, leapt over it.”

—Dave Eggers

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.”

—Dave Eggers

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

—– Dave Eggers

“You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.” ”

—― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance -- this is why people tell me secrets -- my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

“I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was being blindsided by familiar things. I was pulling over to the side of the road, my head resting on the side window, trying to understand why things could be so green. Songs were knocking me from wall to wall, certain songs in certain progressions strained my eyes, roughed up my throat, brought me near tears without delivering me to any kind of catharsis.”

—Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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