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No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.
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A meteorologist might beg to differ, but weather prediction was an act of infidel witchcraft that could not be trusted.
— Anthony Marra
She could spend the whole afternoon rebuilding it, repopulating it, until the hallucination became the more believable reality.
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A mind to feeble to tell the time of day can still get the right blood to the right places, he thought.
— Anthony Marra
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.
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If God has a voice, it is ours.
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You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
— Anthony Marra
Hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.
— Anthony Marra
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
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Who wins? The Americans or the Russians?" "Both," his father said, glancing to the frost-filled windowpane. "Then who loses?" "Everyone else.
— Anthony Marra
Those who have the bullets also have the bandages.
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When he felt like a criminal, he reminded himself that a land without law is a land without crime.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Some people need at least a thousand kilometers between them to stay happily married. But
— Anthony Marra
A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.
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The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.
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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.
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She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
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Hipsterdom's a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.
— Anthony Marra
There was no one left to say whom you could love. p.294
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.
— Anthony Marra
The botanist was a decent man, but Khassan was in love, and thus capable of infinite hate.
— Anthony Marra
If ever there was a season for constipation it was winter.
— Anthony Marra
Turning I would into I did is the grammar of growing up.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
— Anthony Marra
With red ink, and referred to it nightly. Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement,
— Anthony Marra
He's an excellent listener. Most cats are. Except Siameses, the chatty little bastards. I
— Anthony Marra
Grammar was the only place the girl could keep her father alive.
— Anthony Marra
Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
— Anthony Marra
In the flash there's no final thought, no final reflection, just the breath carried from her body on the back of the bullet.
— Anthony Marra
What's his name?
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Maybe we try to find them in other people. In kindness and generosity; those things don't disappear.
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I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
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You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
— Anthony Marra
F you want to keep a man, you better hide his shoes every night so he can't walk out on you.
— Anthony Marra
She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.
— Anthony Marra
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?
— Anthony Marra
When he reached the end, he did not die. He called your name and began to live in you.
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God had pulled her through a needle's eye so narrow that this thread in front of them was all that remained.
— Anthony Marra
We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.
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You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.
— Anthony Marra
Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302
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Turning I would to I did is the grammar of growing up.
— Anthony Marra
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
— Anthony Marra
There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
— Anthony Marra
He was losing her incrementally ... As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.
— Anthony Marra
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
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The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate.
— Anthony Marra
This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible.
— Anthony Marra
Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
— Anthony Marra
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Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
— Anthony Marra
Never forget the first three letters of confidence.
— Anthony Marra
A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.
— Anthony Marra
She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns
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Even as a child she had hated children; she still did.
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The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
— Anthony Marra
We twist our souls around each other's miseries.
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This should be a librarian's job, of course, but you can't trust people who read that much.
— Anthony Marra
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
— Anthony Marra
I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.
— Anthony Marra
Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.
— Anthony Marra
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]
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
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Wars break things; they break stories.
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Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
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To live with dignity meant a premature death.
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When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
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We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A
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