Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

— Anthony Marra

“If ever there was a season for constipation it was winter.”

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

“I’m overcome by the inexplicable desire to speak to you with common courtesy.”

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

— 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

“I've always though Marx's view on religion was the one thing he got right. Faith is a crutch.' 'If you step on…

— Anthony Marra

“Love, she learned, could reduce its recipient to an essential thing, as important as food or shelter, whose presence is not only…

— Anthony Marra

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word…

— Anthony Marra

“Of course he was required to wear a seat belt, just as he was required to give directions to a torture camp,…

— 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

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

— Anthony Marra

“That can cause an electrolyte disturbance: hypercalcemia. Stones, bones, moans, groans, thrones, and psychiatric overtones. That’s the mnemonic,” Natasha said, and repeated…

— Anthony Marra

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences…

— Anthony Marra

“As the saw teeth caught on the bone, she had performed a second surgery, one less bloody but no less brutal, excising…

— Anthony Marra

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the…

— 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

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She…

— 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

“The missing remained missing and the portraits couldn't change that. But when Akhmed slid the finished portrait across the desk and the…

— 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

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

“But to some people ignorance is a sleeping mask they mistake for corrective lenses.”

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.

— Anthony Marra

“There are more ways to remember one person than there are people in the world.”

— Anthony Marra

“Pulling back a stray lock of hair, she drew a question mark around her ear. p. 314”

— Anthony Marra

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

— Anthony Marra