# All the Light We Cannot See  Author:: Anthony Doerr ## Highlights > They hustle through the gates together, gulp fried eggs in the refectory together, march across the quadrangle, perform roll call, salute the colors, shoot rifles, run, bathe, and suffer together. They are each a mound of clay, and the potter that is the portly, shiny-faced commandant is throwing four hundred identical pots. ([Location 1665](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=1665)) > Everyone trapped in their roles: orphans, cadets, Frederick, Volkheimer, the old Jewess who lives upstairs. Even Jutta. ([Location 2724](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2724)) > The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. “I will not.” ([Location 2732](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2732)) > A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect. ([Location 2793](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2793)) > And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of the species. Winnowing out the inferior, the unruly, the chaff. This is the great project of the Reich, the greatest project human beings have ever embarked upon.” ([Location 2855](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2855)) > Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. ([Location 6028](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=6028)) --- Title: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # All the Light We Cannot See  Author:: Anthony Doerr ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > They hustle through the gates together, gulp fried eggs in the refectory together, march across the quadrangle, perform roll call, salute the colors, shoot rifles, run, bathe, and suffer together. They are each a mound of clay, and the potter that is the portly, shiny-faced commandant is throwing four hundred identical pots. ([Location 1665](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=1665)) > Everyone trapped in their roles: orphans, cadets, Frederick, Volkheimer, the old Jewess who lives upstairs. Even Jutta. ([Location 2724](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2724)) > The night steams, the stars burn, the prisoner sways, the boys watch, the commandant tilts his head. Frederick pours the water onto the ground. “I will not.” ([Location 2732](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2732)) > A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect. ([Location 2793](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2793)) > And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of the species. Winnowing out the inferior, the unruly, the chaff. This is the great project of the Reich, the greatest project human beings have ever embarked upon.” ([Location 2855](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=2855)) > Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. ([Location 6028](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00DPM7TIG&location=6028))