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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1047d3f | Feel this," says Harold Bazin, and crouches and brings her hand to a curved wall which is completely studded with snails. Hundreds of them. Thousands. "So many," she whispers. "I don't know why. Maybe because they're safe from gulls? Here, feel this, I'll turn it over." Hundreds of tiny, squirming hydraulic feet beneath a horny, ridged top: a sea star. "Blue mussels here. And here's a dead stone crab, can you feel his claw?" | snails | Anthony Doerr | |
| 134defa | Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled. | resistance war | Anthony Doerr | |
| abd86ce | Can deaf people hear their heartbeat? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 77ef19e | I wasn't trying to reach England. Or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my brother would hear me. That I could bring him some peace, protect him as he had always protected me." "You'd play your brother's own voice to him? After he died?" "And Debussy." "Did he ever talk back?" | brothers ghosts radio | Anthony Doerr | |
| 906ec40 | The universe is full of fuel. | universe | Anthony Doerr | |
| ad8fbb1 | You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 49596f2 | Hasta los mejores cientificos sienten de vez en cuando la tentacion de meterse algo en el bolsillo, algo pequeno y hermoso, o algo de mucho valor. Solo los mas fuertes pueden sobreponerse a ese tipo de sentimientos. Se | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2a9a149 | Las piedras no son mas que piedras, la lluvia no es mas que lluvia y la desgracia es solo mala suerte. Por | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 211dbcb | La logica, la razon y la ciencia pura son las tres vias apropiadas, insiste Aronnax, para aproximarse al misterio. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| fe1a163 | Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Other in other ways | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 12672ce | What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. Werner | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 54449e3 | It is right to do something only because everyone else is doing it? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f6db054 | Every rumor carries a seed of truth, Etienne." All" | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 0d7c528 | They say, Disgrace is not to fall but to lie. They | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f3293b8 | here, | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 4a870bf | The crests above the door lintels still have bumblebees carved into the oak; the ivy-covered fountain in the courtyard is shaped like a hive. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b59fa1d | They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees. Still-warm | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 829dbcb | Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 27f8cfc | the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders. In | Anthony Doerr | ||
| d3f9b81 | hand dies within a week." "No, no, if you hold it, you" | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2762384 | It becomes known as the time of the ostriches. "Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does," she murmurs. Madame" | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 9137f8e | Well, Fredde has all the best there at that school, all the | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 154d745 | Firelit rooms lined with books--these are the places in which important things happen. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 31fe1e1 | E certo -- pergunta Jutta -- fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estao fazendo? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6ee9039 | There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses. | luck | Anthony Doerr | |
| 41e7242 | Cars growl in the streets; leaves whisper in the sky; blood rustles through her inner ears. In the stairwell, in the kitchen, even beside her bed, grown-up voices speak of despair. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 9f391dd | The latrine is apocalyptic | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 156a1be | That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6c017f1 | The clanging of the cart recedes. Marie-Laure | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a44d907 | Piensa en los obstaculos como en oportunidades, | Anthony Doerr | ||
| aaca094 | with the countless chevrons of whitecaps. Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. France. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| efd05ff | And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That great shuttles of souls might fly about faded but audible if you listen closely enough? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ce5c2eb | Crack. Pause. Crack. Pause. Then the long scream as the | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 7aede83 | his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a011b2a | Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 3895554 | gibbous. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 96f485e | Consider a single piece glowing in your family's stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one hundred million. Can you imagine one hundred million years? Every summer for the whole life of that plant, its leaves caught what light they could and transformed the sun's energy into itself. Into bark, twigs, stems. Because plants eat light,.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f390feb | benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned | Anthony Doerr | ||
| c54611f | n'est pas la r | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1df8f73 | He'll say, You did this to me. Please. Not in front of my son. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 76f56b6 | At the crest of a low hill, her father looks over his shoulder: vehicles are backed up as far as he can see, carryalls and vans, a sleek new cloth-top wraparound V-12 | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 92fcb78 | Volkheimer. A boy at Schulpforta once described for Werner a rally at Nuremberg: an ocean of banners and flags, he said, masses of boys teeming in the lights, and the fuhrer himself on an altar a half mile away, spotlights illuminating pillars behind him, the atmosphere oversaturated with meaning and anger | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a4b7f4f | from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 7123ee8 | whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations? The woman | Anthony Doerr |