Anthony Marra Quotes

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• How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
• She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had…
• It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you…
• Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
• Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
• 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…
• Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.
• Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.
• War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
• We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.
• 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…
• Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
• Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of…
• We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce…
• She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
• Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one…
• What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would…
• She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
• There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember…
• Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

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