Anthony Marra Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A meteorologist might beg to differ, but weather prediction was an act of infidel witchcraft that could not be trusted.
She could spend the whole afternoon rebuilding it, repopulating it, until the hallucination became the more believable reality.
A mind to feeble to tell the time of day can still get the right blood to the right places, he thought.
Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
Hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
Who wins? The Americans or the Russians?" "Both," his father said, glancing to the frost-filled windowpane. "Then who loses?" "Everyone else.
He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.
I'm a little disappointed. You spent five years in London and all I get is a doll?" "The real gift was my absence." Finally, a smile.
I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.
There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.
You remember how Mom had that embroidered pillow? When she got upset, she'd shout into it and no one would hear her. That's Facebook.
Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.
Maybe we try to find them in other people. In kindness and generosity; those things don't disappear.
With red ink, and referred to it nightly. Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement,
For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric.
In the flash there's no final thought, no final reflection, just the breath carried from her body on the back of the bullet.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
God had pulled her through a needle's eye so narrow that this thread in front of them was all that remained.
When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.
Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
He was losing her incrementally ... As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.
Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns
The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.
In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A