Quote by Anthony Doerr Download Open image ““Every small, concurrent event had slowed down and assumed an excruciating clarity.”” — Anthony Doerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...” — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.” — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.” — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“destined to burgeon again. You used to forget details. You would have made a poor witness, if asked to reconstruct the order of events… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.” — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“But past events had impressed uponme how fast things could go wrong, and how different life might be after they did.” — Audrey Couloumbis Copy Share Image
“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow in Forks, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” — Orville Wright 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image