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4c299cd Shcho vin vidchuvaie v naigirshi dni tiieyi bezzhalisnoyi zimi, doki irzha vkrivaie vantazhivku, gvintivki i radio, doki nimets'ki divizioni vidstupaiut' na vsikh frontakh, tak tse gliboku ogidu do vsikh liudei, iakikh voni prominaiut'. Dimlivi, zruinovani sela, rozbita tsegla na vulitsiakh, zamerzli trupi, roztroshcheni stini, perekinuti mashini, sobachii gavkit, mishva i voshva - iak voni mozhut' tak zhiti? U lisakh, u gorakh, u selakh vo.. Doerr
9539b2a The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever. Anthony Doerr
392cac8 town, it says. Depart immediately Anthony Doerr
89ac15a she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers. Anthony Doerr
cb61ef1 Los sordos pueden oir los latidos de su propio corazon, frau Elena? Anthony Doerr
99c67b1 There is only chance in this world, chance and physics. Anyway, Anthony Doerr
94078ad To shut your eyes is to guess nothing about 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. Anthony Doerr
ce3a5fe There is pride, too, though--pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and .. Anthony Doerr
aadfafe And the skies: in one day the sky could travel from green at dawn to a noon-time blue so severe it was almost black to hot silver in the afternoon to roiling burgundy at sunset. Just before night it flowered in yawning, imperial violets. Wedges of mauve, cauldrons of peach - skies more like drugs than colors. sky Anthony Doerr
e134fb5 How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? There is pride, too, though--pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the lim.. Anthony Doerr
344a2f7 Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever" (pages" Anthony Doerr
abcfe9b How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? There Anthony Doerr
61f25af everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun. Anthony Doerr
fba3cea Box 1 Auckland, Anthony Doerr
7ba0b89 Potatoes at six o'clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now? Anthony Doerr
ad201e7 My God, there are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together. Anthony Doerr
ecb9c8f What you could be. pulitzer Anthony Doerr
7d16907 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. Anthony Doerr
c5df952 to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else. Anthony Doerr
e3b77e5 See obstacles as opportunities. See obstacles as inspiration. Anthony Doerr
cd93315 Can deaf people hear their heartbeat, Frau Elena?" "Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?" Anthony Doerr
c307b19 But to raise one's hopes is to risk their falling further. Anthony Doerr
c135dd0 Everyone trapped in their roles. Anthony Doerr
5e51c32 You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." The" Anthony Doerr
523bc45 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. Anthony Doerr
66b223d 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. Anthony Doerr
f0b5c86 He knows the transmitter must be high in the house. Close to the shelling. He says, "I saved her only to hear her die." Anthony Doerr
c6c13ff A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Anthony Doerr
80a11f0 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. Anthony Doerr
f8208a1 Siga a logica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solucao. Toda fechadura tem sua chave. Anthony Doerr
0e2babb Setenta e seis anos de idade -- murmura ela -- e ainda consigo me sentir assim? Como uma garotinha com os olhos brilhando? Anthony Doerr
e9979ff Voce nunca pode deixar de acreditar. Essa e a coisa mais importante. Anthony Doerr
965dbce A vida toda voce espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, voce esta pronto? Anthony Doerr
d4a62ef Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir. Anthony Doerr
452cb11 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)" Anthony Doerr
4e1a089 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. Anthony Doerr
50d065d 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. death unfairness Anthony Doerr
c2a550a Seventy-six years old, and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes? Anthony Doerr
481ce5a Doesn't everything die at last and too soon? Anthony Doerr
a8a8369 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." Anthony Doerr
768b159 What light shines at night! He never knew. Day will blind him. Anthony Doerr
d65f9c8 granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, Anthony Doerr
5e1d0d8 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. Anthony Doerr
3e23371 vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can Anthony Doerr