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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7b32c76 | here comes the light, nameless and intangible, streaming 93 million unobstructed miles through the implacable black vacuum to break itself against a wall, a cornice, a column. It drenches, it crenellates, it textures, It throws the city into relief. The coins fall through the slot; the illumination box clicks on. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| bf40e43 | says, Consider a single piece glowing in your | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6fe85fa | In the candlelight, she looks of another world, her face all freckles, and in the center of the freckles those two eyes hang unmoving like the egg cases of spiders. They do not track him, but they do not unnerve him, either; they seem almost to see into a separate, deeper place, a world that consists only of music. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| bf587d9 | A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, : a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way done a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e9fb3aa | A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, : a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way down a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a55f753 | Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 7a77099 | Dr. Hauptmann: A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f6caad9 | Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took its time draining away. Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 202105c | by a moving reef? A gigantic horned narwhal? A mythical kraken? But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax. Enough of these phantasies. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales. Her fingers walk the tightropes of sentences; in her imagination, she walks the dec.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| c041019 | Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. 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. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 5dff3ed | spinach, | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2cd5da5 | Extirpation? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ee6fde7 | ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 86efee3 | Deep in Madame's voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagos and lagoons and fjords. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 0540154 | Viktoriastrasse | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 686bad6 | the way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1ba2d02 | your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything. And even then. It's not | Anthony Doerr | ||
| d72e3e5 | What i want to write about is the sea... It is my favorite thing, i think that i ever seen. Sometimes i catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. | anthony-doerr | Anthony Doerr | |
| 84eea60 | Color--that's another thing people don't expect. In her imagination, in her dreams, everything has color. The museum buildings are beige, chestnut, hazel. Its scientists are lilac and lemon yellow and fox brown. Piano chords loll in the speaker of the wireless in the guard station, projecting rich blacks and complicated blues down the hall toward the key pound. Church bells send arcs of bronze careening off the windows. Bees are silver; pig.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e7f1462 | Tatal ei radiaza o mie de culori, opal, rosu-capsuna, ruginiu-inchis, verde crud; un miros de ulei si metal, senzatia de cheie potrivita in yala, zornaitul cheilor lui pe inel in timp ce merge. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 197e6b8 | At dusk the pour from the sky. | opening-lines | Anthony Doerr | |
| 5d3b9fd | At dusk they pour from the sky. | opening-lines | Anthony Doerr | |
| e2c43a1 | Madame?" "Yes?" "What do I do?" "Just walk." She walks. Now there are cold round pebbles beneath her feet. Now crackling weeds. Now something smoother: wet, unwrinkled sand. She bends and spreads her fingers. It's like cold silk. Cold, sumptuous silk onto which the sea has laid offerings: pebbles, shells, barnacles. Tiny slips of wrack. Her fingers dig and reach; the drops of rain touch the back of her neck, the backs of her hands. The sand.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| cc28c0f | Gerlitz, Claudia Forster, and fifteen-year-old Jutta Pfennig--are transported from Essen to Berlin to work in a machine parts factory. For ten hours a day, six days a week, they disassemble massive forging presses and stack the usable metal in crates to be loaded onto train cars. Unscrewing, sawing, hauling. Most days Frau Elena works close by, wearing a torn ski jacket she has found, mumbling to herself in French or singing songs from chil.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| b74dd13 | Something | Anthony Doerr | ||
| bd59848 | Para aquellos hombres el tiempo era un exceso, un barril que se vaciaba lentamente. Cuando en realidad, piensa el, se parece mas a un charco luminoso que uno lleva entre las manos y debe proteger con toda su energia, luchar para no derramar ni una sola gota"." | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 9a4a9ea | Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| e272337 | Para aquellos hombres el tiempo era un exceso, un barril que se vaciaba lentamente. Cuando en realidad, piensa el, se parece mas a un charco luminoso que uno lleva entre las manos y debe proteger con toda su energia, luchar para no derramar ni una sola gota. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 2032071 | Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules. Bits of living rooms, cafes, trees. People. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 75b4f04 | You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self- interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| bfa2166 | Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| d5ba4ea | Marie-Laure isi imagineaza undele electromagnetice intrand si iesind din aparatul lui Michel, arcuindu-se in jurul lor, asa cum descria Etienne, doar ca acum sunt de o mie de ori mai multe unde care strabat aerul in toate directiile decat pe vremea lui - sau poate de un milion de ori mai multe. Torente de mesaje scurte, oceane de conversatii pe mobil, de programe de televiziune, de e-mailuri, retele vaste de fibra si cabluri impletite deasu.. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| aee244a | the whiteness | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 1de794a | Ca inchipuiti mai sunt oamenii! De ce sa te obosesti sa compui muzica daca tacerea si vantul sunt mai cuprinzatoare? De ce sa aprinzi lampi daca intunericul, inevitabil, le va stinge? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6a9792d | Dar Dumnezeu e doar un ochi alb si rece, un sfert de luna atarnand deasupra fumului, clipind intr-una, in timp ce orasul e facut praf si pulbere. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 705ab88 | Only through the hottest fires can be purification achieved. Only through the harshest test's can the God's chosen rise | Anthony Doerr | ||
| a2f916b | See obstacles as opportunities.See obstacles as inspirations | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 4c714b7 | A real diamond is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect | Anthony Doerr | ||
| ee041c6 | You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing | Anthony Doerr | ||
| fa40005 | Time-It's a glowing puddle in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 9cac7c8 | Frederick runs hard. But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before. They are impatient to find out what will happen if someone is caught. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| f6e0668 | How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing? | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 6651cc8 | When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| 706630b | A portrait of the fuhrer glowers over every classroom. | Anthony Doerr |