Everything Is Illuminated Alex Quotes & Sayings

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives. — Eli Pariser

Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. — Oscar Wilde

Peace is impossible, war is improbable. — Raymond Aron

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. — Rohinton Mistry

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will — Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time.
Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated — Jonathan Safran Foer

Bro," said Roger. "You're a time traveler."
"No, I'm not," said Nate.
"Not yet, but maybe in the future. — Peter Clines

To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits. — Ogden Nash

I checked Delores, she appeared to be running on a lake top, a girl on a fairy horse sprinting across fresh water. As I looked, Delores let go of the bay's mane and sat straight up, riding only with her legs and hips, her arms out as if to fly. She tilted her head back, too, and she looked so perfect doing it that I didn't dare try to copy her. This was something only for her, something I could only witness, and she galloped down that hill with her soul somewhere up in the sky above her. We both knew it, and we never had to mention it. T — Joseph Monninger

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand

About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black. — Mark Bradford