Anthony Doerr Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Anthony Doerr quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
pilaster, probably meant to anchor a
— Anthony Doerr
He checked the barometer he'd nailed to the family room wall: the pressure was rising.
— Anthony Doerr
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
He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.
— Anthony Doerr
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
— Anthony Doerr
Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.
— Anthony Doerr
from Volkheimer to Werner.
— Anthony Doerr
quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid. — Anthony Doerr
Speed, to hear their skates clapping along, then
— Anthony Doerr
Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113
— Anthony Doerr
So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.
— Anthony Doerr
Jutta, he thinks, I finally listened.
— Anthony Doerr
Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.
— Anthony Doerr
Nine are killed instantly. One of them still clutching the hand of bridge he was playing when the shell struck.
— Anthony Doerr
What mazes there are in this world.
— Anthony Doerr
Herr Siedler smiles as if to say: You and I, son, we know history takes a longer course, don't we?
— Anthony Doerr
It was love. He excavated a boot print she'd left on the snowy step outside his apartment and preserved it in his freezer.
— Anthony Doerr
Wednesdays. You will strip away
— Anthony Doerr
Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere.
— Anthony Doerr
land mines explode in front
— Anthony Doerr
this window here, a boy once yelled, Watch
— Anthony Doerr
walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the
— Anthony Doerr
He'll say, You did this to me. Please. Not in front of my son.
— Anthony Doerr
How few days are left in the lives of anyone. How few hours.
— Anthony Doerr
He is a ghost. He is from some other world. He is Papa, Madame Manec, Etienne; he is everyone who has left her finally coming back.
— Anthony Doerr
He thought he might say more, but something in her face had closed off, and the opportunity passed.
— Anthony Doerr
Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?
— Anthony Doerr
There are none so distant that fate cannot bring them together.
— Anthony Doerr
War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.
— Anthony Doerr
When he turns to go, the perfumer's
— Anthony Doerr
Crack. Pause. Crack. Pause. Then the long scream as the
— Anthony Doerr
There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing.
— Anthony Doerr
How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.
— Anthony Doerr
But it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.
— Anthony Doerr
Isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it.
— Anthony Doerr
Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.
— Anthony Doerr
Lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into
— Anthony Doerr
stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a
— Anthony Doerr
A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.
— Anthony Doerr
We live in exceptional times.
— Anthony Doerr
Marie-Laure is glad to hear a smile enter his voice. But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds.
— Anthony Doerr
Beach. Everyone who can must work to strengthen
— Anthony Doerr
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
— Anthony Doerr
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?
— Anthony Doerr
We serve the Reich, Pfennig. It does not serve us.
— Anthony Doerr
And this feeling, permeating every waking minute, that he had made too many wrong decisions.
— Anthony Doerr
hand dies within a week." "No, no, if you hold it, you
— Anthony Doerr
What you could be.
— Anthony Doerr
Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.
— Anthony Doerr
the air would get so heavy with moisture he imagined he could feel each bloated molecule as it toppled into his lungs.
— Anthony Doerr
You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.
— Anthony Doerr
It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.
— Anthony Doerr
He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.
— Anthony Doerr
To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.
— Anthony Doerr
Every cell in a dying body winks out at its own pace.
— Anthony Doerr
Harold Bazin loves to talk
— Anthony Doerr
on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions. — Anthony Doerr
To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.
— Anthony Doerr
From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.
— Anthony Doerr
Can deaf people hear their heartbeat?
— Anthony Doerr
Every process must by law decay.
— Anthony Doerr
What the war did to dreamers.
— Anthony Doerr
Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!
— Anthony Doerr
To really touch something, is to love it.
— Anthony Doerr
For Winkler each hour was another hour between Cleveland and Anchorage, between who they were becoming and who they had been.
— Anthony Doerr
Dust floats through the feeble beam of the flashlight: ten thousand particles, turning softly, twinkling.
— Anthony Doerr
Says, Shuts himself up like a corpse one day, eats like an
— Anthony Doerr
says, Consider a single piece glowing in your
— Anthony Doerr
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
— Anthony Doerr
Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
— Anthony Doerr
Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption?
— Anthony Doerr
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
We used to pick berries by the Ruhr. My sister and me.
— Anthony Doerr
March, rain at the windows, and he had to be up at five the next morning. He listened to the click and patter of drops against the panes.
— Anthony Doerr
A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.
— Anthony Doerr
She says, "Good.
— Anthony Doerr
To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness.
— Anthony Doerr
the voice seems to echo in the architecture of his head
— Anthony Doerr
