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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bd38bf4 | Artillery has stopped for the moment, and the predawn fires inside the walls take on a steady middle life, an adulthood. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 8cebfcc | The sky drops silver threads of sleet. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 805af3e | assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 5be0143 | bathroom, | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1fa3b3b | he can | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 400239f | Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 5c72a6a | does not want to decide. They visit Scotland, New York City, Santiago. More than once they put on winter coats and visit the moon. "Can't you feel how lightweight we are, Marie? You can move by hardly twitching a muscle!" He sets her in his wheeled desk chair and pants as he whirls her in circles until she cannot laugh anymore for the pain of it." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f6a7e8f | He made her the glowing hot center of his life; he made her feel as if every step she took was important. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 5a52742 | in the center of her forehead he can see a hole blacker than the blackness around him, | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6aed2ad | in this world, they do as they're told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ae08de6 | The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| dd0f311 | He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 818a4a9 | Now that shell, Laurette, belonged to a violet sea snail, a blind snail that lives its whole life on the surface of the sea. As | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a4967da | should be a wall, her hands find | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ec22032 | All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms... | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 34b80ee | She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 764fc4b | What does he remember? He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ad9c040 | What the war did to dreamers | Anthony Doerr | ||
| de04fa0 | of | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b2734d1 | realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. "Who built all of this," | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 942a663 | ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes both in the United States and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Raised in Cl.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 0350b69 | Ce n'est pas la realite. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ad3cbf3 | Every cell in a dying body winks out at its own pace. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 304a412 | everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 93e510a | Wednesdays. You will strip away | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b298e4f | Harold | InstaRead | ||
| b445c5e | A memory rises: Etienne was in a field east of the city with his brother. It was the summer when fireflies showed up in Saint-Malo, and their father was very excited, building long-handled nets for the boys and giving them jars with wire to fasten over the tops, and Etienne and Henri raced through the tall grass as the fireflies floated away from them, illuming on and off, always seeming to rise just beyond their reach, as if the earth were.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| deeea7c | The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives--the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 978646f | Herr Siedler smiles as if to say: You and I, son, we know history takes a longer course, don't we? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2ca99fd | A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2c16033 | Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind. | society | Anthony Doerr | |
| e529e9e | Each minute that passes is one fewer in this house. In this life. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f21fcfa | Out there people chase questions of great importance. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 3dcee01 | hurries | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e60974f | Use logic. Which way should we go first?" The world pivots and rumbles." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 9e81718 | Violins, horns, drums, speeches--a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening--the sorcery of it holds him rapt. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 286a7e8 | The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b09c738 | turn | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2a40d9a | We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother's birth canal and we howl. Then .. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 99f700d | O tempo e algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas maos para sempre. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b09c1c1 | Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered with light, and the spruce had become illuminated kingdoms, snow sifting from branch to branch. He thought: This has been here every winter all my life. | snow trees winter | Anthony Doerr | |
| 501f8cf | as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 35f48a4 | Ele a fez o brilhante centro da vida dele; ele a fez sentir como se cada passo que ela dava fosse importante. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e231a46 | Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out | Anthony Doerr |