Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways. - Anthony Doerr

The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.

It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.