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No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
If God has a voice, it is ours.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.
— Anthony Marra
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.
— Anthony Marra
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
— Anthony Marra
If ever there was a season for constipation it was winter.
— Anthony Marra
Even as a child she had hated children; she still did.
— Anthony Marra
We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.
— Anthony Marra
You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.
— Anthony Marra
You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
— 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
Turning I would into I did is the grammar of growing up.
— Anthony Marra
She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns
— Anthony Marra
A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.
— 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
There was no one left to say whom you could love. p.294
— Anthony Marra
Hipsterdom's a tightrope strung across the canyon of douche-baggery. He clung by a finger.
— 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
How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
— 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?
— Anthony Marra
Maybe we try to find them in other people. In kindness and generosity; those things don't disappear.
— Anthony Marra
I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
— Anthony Marra
Never forget the first three letters of confidence.
— Anthony Marra
Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
— 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.
— 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
God had pulled her through a needle's eye so narrow that this thread in front of them was all that remained.
— Anthony Marra
The bookcase tipped and the book covers opened like wings over an underbelly of white feathers, dirty with ink.
— Anthony Marra
You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.
— 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
Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.
— Anthony Marra
Wars break things; they break stories.
— Anthony Marra
Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
— Anthony Marra
This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible.
— Anthony Marra
To live with dignity meant a premature death.
— Anthony Marra
When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
— Anthony Marra
We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A
— Anthony Marra
We twist our souls around each other's miseries.
— Anthony Marra
Then tell me who Ronald McDonald is."
"Very soon I'll have to apologize for calling you an idiot again. — Anthony Marra
"Very soon I'll have to apologize for calling you an idiot again. — Anthony Marra
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
— Anthony Marra
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
The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate.
— 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
With red ink, and referred to it nightly. Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement,
— Anthony Marra
Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
— 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
This should be a librarian's job, of course, but you can't trust people who read that much.
— 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
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
— Anthony Marra
Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302
— Anthony Marra
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
— 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