Adventure Quote by Anthony Doerr

“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”

Anthony Doerr

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“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

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“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…

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“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.”

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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

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“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

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“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the…

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