"But there had to be a quota. An……" — Anthony Marra
"But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?"
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Anthony Marra
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27 Quotes by Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra has 27 quotes on this site.
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How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
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She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross…
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It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but…
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Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
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Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
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Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
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Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
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War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
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We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of…
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Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
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Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in…
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must…
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