Anthony Marra

“Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours…

— Anthony Marra

“The previous night, for the first time in a long time, he had felt whole, and his eyes returned to the rearview,…

— Anthony Marra

“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,…

— Anthony Marra

“There was no one left to say whom you could love. p.294”

— Anthony Marra

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

— Anthony Marra

“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,…

— Anthony Marra

“He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence…

— Anthony Marra

“He asked them to close their eyes, and hoped their mouths would follow suit.” p. 137”

— Anthony Marra

“Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.”

— Anthony Marra

“Those smooth, spit-cleaned cheeks gave no indication of the dreams crowding her skull. Should she make it to adulthood, the girl would…

— anthony marra

“In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but…

— Anthony Marra

“Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents…

— Anthony Marra

“He was losing her incrementally...As a web is no more than holes woven together, they were bonded by what was no longer…

— Anthony Marra

“Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.”

— Anthony Marra

“A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.”

— Anthony Marra

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I…

— Anthony Marra

“Her father was her door to the world; he was the singular opening through which she saw, heard, and felt. Without him…

— Anthony Marra

“This changed when Khassan joined them, once every few months, as the invisible structure built between them failed to support the weight…

— Anthony Marra

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

— Anthony Marra

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room,…

— Anthony Marra

“You mean Ronald just stepped down after ten years?' he asked. She had to be putting him on. 'He just stepped down…

— Anthony Marra

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

— Anthony Marra

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

— Anthony Marra

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

— Anthony Marra

“There’s no working radio tower in the country. It’s all static,” she said, without looking to him. “I know. But 102.3 plays…

— Anthony Marra