When one acts before thinking, regret usually follows. Near the end of the novel, All the Light We Cannot See, the sense of regret plays in the mind of Werner, especially in the passage, “Final Sentence” (Doerr 449-451). At this point in the book the deaths that he has witnessed, and in a way are responsible for, have finally caught up to him mentally. This began as he imagined the ghost of one of his murders say, “‘For tripping in line, she says. For working too slowly. For arguing over bread. For loitering too long in the camp toilet. For sobbing. For not organizing her things according to protocol.’ It’s surely nonsense, yet something hangs inside it, some truth he does not want to allow himself to apprehend” (Doerr 449). The truth Werner
