You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of frost on his windshield; by a… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“To a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For a moment Zeno feels that he might be able to speak it into existence: if he says exactly the right words,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we'd collect stuff on the beach… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Hour by hour, minute by minute, I make decisions that seem like the right things to do at the time but which… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“After she has gone back to sleep, after Etienne has blown out his candle, he kneels for a long time beside his… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Answers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For a split second, the space around Werner tears in half, as though the last molecules of oxygen have been ripped out… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“had felt time settle over itself, imbricate and fix into place the vertigo of future aligning with the present.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition. ” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. And a full bottle of Bordeaux. Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
