I Am Radar Quotes

“To see the stars, you must be able to first see the night.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar: A Novel

“I’ll tell you what it is: we are confined to consequence. We can survive the now only because we claim to know what comes next. We are terrified of the truth: that by saying ‘if this,’ we have already destroyed ‘then that.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Bohr knew, in the way that few great men do, exactly how much of the universe could never be understood at all.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Observation is precisely the problem. Observation, as we understand it, is the nemesis of understanding. We’re ibsessed with this act of witnessing - yet witnessing is an action that irrevocably affects the subject. As it turns out, we can only witness the witnessing.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“He viewed our peaceful coexistence with the unknown as a testament to the capacities of the human mind.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“If you admit you are uncertain, than you are that much closer to certainly.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“She is brief, this life, and then she leaves us when she realizes her mistake.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“War happens for only one reason: we cannot see past our own death.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Life spills across generations in the simplest of ways.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“If there was one thing Serbs could never abandon, it was their dangerously poetic and causal manner of cussing.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“He nodded to the bird, conspiratorially, as if what had just transpired had all been on purpose. The duck had nodded back.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“The ring of people who had stopped to watch were doing so not because of her enthralling acrobatics, but because of their collective awareness that this women, in that moment, could only be doing exactly what she was doing. The laws of the universe determined it.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Entropy would eventually reign supreme. It was the beginning of the end.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“We must not let others do work we should be doing.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“The Cambodians believe the eyes never change, you can go through an infinite number of reincarnations, but your eyes will always remain the same. It’s how we recognize our friends and enemies across time.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“We think, and therefore we cannot just be.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“It’s the idea that if only we hadn’t been interrupted, then we could’ve accomplished our magnum opus... but in the end, we come to realize that the interruption is the work itself.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“War causes strange things to happen. People’s priorities shift.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #4: We will be what we are, and what we are is what we will be.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #34: If the choice is between no and yes, choose yes. (Unless you must choose no.)”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #48: History persists.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #49: Many imperfections can and may lead to perfection.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #55: Dreaming is the first step to knowing is the first step to dreaming.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #101: We are more than our words and our words are more than us.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Rule #238: Don’t do it because you can. Do it because you must.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“He had seen enough to know that in every death, someone suffered and someone triumphed, and often those two were the same person.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“If they are to achieve anything in the future, they must see what magnificence was possible in the past.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“It was like I saw the world, in a different light, a different set of possibilities. Suddenly there was a way for me to be me.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar

“Her language was uniquely her own, an island of marooned expression.”
― Reif Larsen, I Am Radar