"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

-Anthony Doerr. All The Light We Cannot See.

"I want to live, however briefly, knowing that my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life. Peace, love, friendship... these are precious because we know they cannot endure."

-Data. Star Trek: Picard.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

"A text - a book - is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on. But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death."

-Anthony Doerr. Cloud Cuckoo Land.

If I could give this book a hug, I would hug it so tight its spine would start creaking. 

We are all connected, no matter where or when we are. If we could only see life and the world in super-mega-extra-wide lens, maybe we'd all be happier and we'd learn to appreciate what we have more.

(Side note: the quote above, especially the bolded part hits a bit close to home right now.)

A few more quotes from the book:

"...he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even when we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human."

"Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered."

"The world as it is is enough."