Frases de Dave Eggers

„Los secretos son mentiras.
Compartir es querer.
La privacidad es un robo.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro El círculo

The Circle

„Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.“

—  Dave Eggers

„We are unusual and tragic and alive.“

—  Dave Eggers

„I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro What Is the What

Variante: If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Fuente: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 21, pp. 317-318
Fuente: What Is the What
Contexto: I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

„But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro What Is the What

Fuente: What Is the What

„We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fuente: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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

—  Dave Eggers

Fuente: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

„We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fuente: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

„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

Fuente: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

„Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro What Is the What

Fuente: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006), Ch. 10, p. 110
Fuente: What Is the What

„His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro What Is the What

Fuente: What Is the What

„We see the beauty within and cannot say no.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fuente: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

„The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.“

—  Dave Eggers

„You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro El círculo

Fuente: The Circle

„It is no way to live, to wait to love.“

—  Dave Eggers

„Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?“

—  Dave Eggers, libro El círculo

Fuente: The Circle

„Why do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because I want everyone to witness my youth

Why?
-Isn't it gorgeous?“

—  Dave Eggers, libro A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fuente: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

„Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.“

—  Dave Eggers

Fuente: How the Water Feels to the Fishes

„If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.“

—  Dave Eggers, libro A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fuente: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius