“Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“They thought she knew what she was doing and she made their faith hers” — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“... 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 Copy Share Image
“He was losing her incrementally...As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“The previous night, for the first time in a long time, he had felt whole, and his eyes returned to the rearview, where his… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales, obviously, like… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were fantastical… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“He asked them to close their eyes, and hoped their mouths would follow suit.” p. 137” — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“Those smooth, spit-cleaned cheeks gave no indication of the dreams crowding her skull. Should she make it to adulthood, the girl would arrive with… — anthony marra Copy Share
“In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more… — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share
“A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.” — Anthony Marra Copy Share
