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Top 20 David Ebershoff Quotes (2025 Update)

David Ebershoff Quote: “Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn’t paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that’s love.”

1. “Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn’t paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that’s love.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say “Benjamin” it’s like my name is safe in their mouth.”

2. “I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say “Benjamin” it’s like my name is safe in their mouth.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.”

3. “Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “And wasn’t that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.”

4. “And wasn’t that the inexhaustible struggle for Greta? Her perpetual need to be alone but always loved, and in love.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Isn’t it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.”

5. “Isn’t it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.”

6. “I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn’t believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.”

7. “Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn’t believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.”

8. “I, of course, cherish my freedom, but I shall never want my freedom to restrict the freedom of another. In that case then I am not truly free, and none of us is truly free.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.”

9. “What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.”

10. “Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.”

11. “I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.”

12. “Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.”

13. “I wish I could claim I faced my first day of apostasy with courage and certainty. Yet in truth, I had never felt more afraid.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, “I should have paid more.”

14. “Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, “I should have paid more.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.”

15. “Rage is a candle, it will always burn out.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Anna’s voice wasn’t a beautiful voice – rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna’s voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.”

16. “Anna’s voice wasn’t a beautiful voice – rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna’s voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were red with coals.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “Although I cannot prove this scenario, I know it – and isn’t that the ultimate definition of faith? Knowing what we can’t know. Seeing what isn’t there.”

17. “Although I cannot prove this scenario, I know it – and isn’t that the ultimate definition of faith? Knowing what we can’t know. Seeing what isn’t there.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar’s cheeks and said, “It means nothing.” And then, “When will you stop worrying about what other people think?”

18. “Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar’s cheeks and said, “It means nothing.” And then, “When will you stop worrying about what other people think?”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.”

19. “And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one’s thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”

20. “Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one’s thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”

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David Ebershoff Quote: “He realized that Lili and he shared something: a pair of oyster-blue lungs; a chugging heart; their eyes, often rimmed pink with fatigue. But in the skull it was almost as if there were two brains, a walnut halved: his and hers.”

21. “He realized that Lili and he shared something: a pair of oyster-blue lungs; a chugging heart; their eyes, often rimmed pink with fatigue. But in the skull it was almost as if there were two brains, a walnut halved: his and hers.”

— David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff Quote: “There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar’s life – from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy – when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one’s thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”

22. “There was a terrible stretch of time in Einar’s life – from the time Hans left Bluetooth until the day he met Greta at the academy – when he lived without anyone to reveal his secrets to. Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one’s thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.”

— David Ebershoff

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