Anthony Marra

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

— Anthony Marra

“She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.”

— Anthony Marra

“The trees they passed repeated on and on into the woods. None was remarkable when compared to the next, but each was…

— Anthony Marra

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her…

— Anthony Marra

“Maybe we try to find them in other people. In kindness and generosity; those things don't disappear.”

— Anthony Marra

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime.…

— Anthony Marra

“There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the…

— Anthony Marra

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he…

— Anthony Marra

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

— Anthony Marra

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

— Anthony Marra

“Those who have the bullets also have the bandages.”

— Anthony Marra

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

— Anthony Marra

“Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302”

— Anthony Marra

“They thought she knew what she was doing and she made their faith hers”

— Anthony Marra

“But Sonja was more freakish, more wondrously confounding than the one-armed guard; rather than limbs she had, somehow, amputated expectations. She didn't…

— Anthony Marra

“But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”

— Anthony Marra

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more…

— Anthony Marra

“He had learned well: made a board of the village, a pawn of the master.”

— Anthony Marra

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to…

— Anthony Marra