# Quote — Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

> But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.

- Author: [Dave Eggers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers.md)
- Book: [You Shall Know Our Velocity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#You_Shall_Know_Our_Velocity!_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/but-that-in-any

## More from this book

> What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/what-did-we-want.md)

> I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/i-was-feeling.md)

> Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/hand-took-a-breath.md)