The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 Quotes

“Like I don’t know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I’m alive. Maybe that’s what’s missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

“That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in—the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

“it seemed, had some purpose, even if that purpose was just to ask for something.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

“That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever read, everything you have ever learned from holding a book in your hands and how that knowledge shaped you and made you who you are today. Looking back now on all those years, to when I first discovered books at the library, I see that I was simply falling in love. Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012