Anthony Doerr Quotes

Thirtieth of April, 1944, is a missive to Berlin. = NOTICE OF TERRORIST BROADCASTS IN CÔTES DU NORD WE BELIEVE SAINT-LUNAIRE OR DINARD OR SAINT-MALO

Hand dies within a week. No, no, if you hold it, you

About Author

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Billfold.

Marie-Laure lee a Julio Verne en la conserjería, en el baño, en los corredores. Lee en los bancos que hay en la galería central y en cualquiera de los cientos de senderos de grava que hay en los ajrdi...

Your problem, Werner, is that you still believe you own your life.

Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail.

Quantos labirintos existem neste mundo. Os galhos das árvores, as filigranas das raízes, a matriz dos cristais, as ruas que o pai dela tinha recriado nas maquetes. Labirintos nas saliências de conchas...

Your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. Can we see it? No. Not even open the first door? No. Have you seen it? I have not. So how do you know it’s really there? You have...

You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is.

Stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a

Souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That g...

A tall window: five dozen inch-tall storm troopers march there, each toy man with a brown shirt and tiny red armband, some with flutes, some with drums, a few officers astride glossy black stallions.

And he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while sno...

The whiteness

Town, it says. Depart immediately

Chitons.

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing h...

Yourself to sleep at night. Bleed your weasel.

To enter a world of shadows is to leave this world for another.