Anthony Doerr quotes - page 2

The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget. (Anthony Doerr)
What the war did to dreamers. View quote
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This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. View quote
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Is it right,” Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it? View quote
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isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. View quote
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To really touch something, she is learning-the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop-is to love it. View quote
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Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. View quote
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Doing nothing is as good as collaborating. View quote
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Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be. View quote
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He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years. View quote
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I am only alive because I have not yet died. (Anthony Doerr)
It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have! View quote
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite. View quote
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Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. View quote
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To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. View quote
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But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust. View quote
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And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind. View quote
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A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this. View quote
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If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen. View quote
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Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes? View quote
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There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses. (Anthony Doerr)
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. View quote
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A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours. View quote
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Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be? View quote
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Who knew love could kill you? View quote
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