"….the light that comes when you burn coal or charcoal or peat…….he said the light you get from a piece of coal is actually sunlight….the point is…..light lasts forever; for a billion years inside a piece of coal. But darkness, the professor said, the darkness lasts not even for one second when you turn on the light.
excerpt from the movie All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr, directed by Shawn Levy and developed by Steven Knight
