# Quote — Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

> We’d have a motherfucking shitload of dogs! Horses. Peacocks. Oh to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be made geniuses waiting to take over everything.

- 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/wed-have-a-motherfucking

## 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)