“ Word has it . . . the stone is from Japan, it's very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century. - a taxidermist Anthony Doerr
“ The Sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, super-natural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the… Anthony Doerr
“ Lately the commandant speaks more and more intimately of the führer and the latest thing- prayers, petroleum, loyalty- that he requires. The führer requires trustworthiness, electricity, boot leather.… Anthony Doerr
“ 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… Anthony Doerr
“ Sognò alberi che gelavano, che esplodevano nella notte; sognò lupi al galoppo lungo un crinale e labirinti in miniatura sotto la neve. Forse, pensò in seguito, erano in realtà i sogni degli insetti, c… Anthony Doerr
“ [...] he thinks [...] as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. Anthony Doerr
“ Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful. Anthony Doerr
“ He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out the bottom, his monitor flashing green, green, green, his entire four-pound body motionless except hi… Anthony Doerr
“ Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer'… Anthony Doerr
“ Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio stamped with an eagle and a swastika, incapable of shortwave, marked only for German frequencie… Anthony Doerr
“ Hasta los mejores científicos sienten de vez en cuando la tentación de meterse algo en el bolsillo, algo pequeño y hermoso, o algo de mucho valor. Solo los más fuertes pueden sobreponerse a ese tipo d… Anthony Doerr
“ ¿Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Esa es la lección. El que decide el rumbo de la historia es el que gana. Anthony Doerr
“ And to Marie Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun. Anthony Doerr
“ And one cold Tuesday in December, when Marie-Laure has been blind for over a year, her father walks her up rue Cuvier to the edge of the Jardin des Plantes.Here, ma chérie, is the path we take every m… Anthony Doerr
“ Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered… Anthony Doerr
