"He was losing her incrementally. It might be……" — Anthony Marra
"He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)"
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27 Quotes by Anthony Marra
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How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
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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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Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
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More Arc Quotes
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
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Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who…
— Dave Barry
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Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that…
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards,…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something…
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When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and…
— Dante Alighieri
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some…
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