Anthony Doerr Quotes

Émerveillement.

Диамантът, напомня си ключарят, е само къс въглерод, престоял цяла вечност под огромното налягане в недрата на Земята и е изхвърлен на повърхността през някой коминот лава. Някой го изравя, друг го шл...

Ентропия е степента на безпорядък в една система, господин докторе...Хауптман пише на черната дъска, курсантите го преписват в тетрадките си:Ентропията в една затворена система никога не намалява. Вся...

I spend ten entire minutes trying to open a plastic package of Weeble-wobbles...,my fingers raw, the three little Weebles obstinate in their PVC clamshells. I can't help but wonder, as I saw with a br...

To feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

Воздух – библиотека и патефонная пластинка всякой прожитой жизни, всякой прозвучавшей фразы, и в нем по-прежнему отдаются все когда-либо сказанные слова.

A ciência, meu rapaz, é construída com erros, mas são erros úteis, porque levam, pouco a pouco, até à verdade.

A corner of the night sky, beyond a wall of trees, blooms red. In the lurid, flickering light, he sees that the airplane was not alone, that the sky teems with them, a dozen swooping back and forth, r...

A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne

A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One mont...

A memory rises: Etienne was in a field east of the city with his brother. It was the summer when fireflies showed up in Saint-Malo, and their father was very excited, building long-handled nets for th...

A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom.

A real diamond is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect

A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect.

A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time.

A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner’s color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man sni...

A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, : a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling y...