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Box 1 Auckland,
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Potatoes at six o'clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now?
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My God, there are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together.
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What you could be.
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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.
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to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.
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See obstacles as opportunities. See obstacles as inspiration.
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Can deaf people hear their heartbeat, Frau Elena?" "Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?"
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But to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further.
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Everyone trapped in their roles.
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You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." The"
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Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. Frederick hardly every thinks of himself. Frederick is stronger than he is in every imaginable way.
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They lie on their stomachs and page through comics, feeling the pleasure of being outside of school, glancing at each other now and then as if curious to learn whether their friendship will continue to exist in another place.
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He knows the transmitter must be high in the house. Close to the shelling. He says, "I saved her only to hear her die."
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Anthony Doerr |
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A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time.
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Anthony Doerr |
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Sabe a maior licao da historia? A historia e aquilo que os vitoriosos determinam. Eis a licao. Seja qual for o vencedor, ele e quem decide a historia.
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Siga a logica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solucao. Toda fechadura tem sua chave.
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Setenta e seis anos de idade -- murmura ela -- e ainda consigo me sentir assim? Como uma garotinha com os olhos brilhando?
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Voce nunca pode deixar de acreditar. Essa e a coisa mais importante.
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A vida toda voce espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, voce esta pronto?
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Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir.
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Her hands find Madame's face, and the old woman's cheek is so hot that Marie-Laure'so fingers recoil as though scalded. She scrambles upstairs, stumbling, shouting, "Uncle! Uncle!" The whole house turning scarlet in her mind, roof turning to smoke, flames chewing through walls. (All the Light We Cannot See 298)"
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This is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
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And to Marie Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
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death
unfairness
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Seventy-six years old, and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?
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Doesn't everything die at last and too soon?
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Don't you ever get tired of believing? Don't you ever want proof?" "You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing."
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What light shines at night! He never knew. Day will blind him.
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granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous,
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What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl.
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vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can
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Is she happy? For portions of every day, she is happy. When she's standing beneath a tree, for instance, listening to the leaves vibrating in the wind, or when she opens a package from a collector and that old ocean odor of shells comes washing out.
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Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the gross. In the flowers. In songs.
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It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now." Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. "I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our"
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Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if toward the lips of God.
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Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters.
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The) Gray wagtail...doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
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He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.
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Anthony Doerr |
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Silence is the fruit of occupation.
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bravest. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up
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Anthony Doerr |
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Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
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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 Entomology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop--is to love it. At
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Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren't real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad
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Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me.
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