546 Quotes by Anthony Doerr

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    These numbers, they’re more than numbers. Do you understand?”“But we are the good guys. Aren’t we, Uncle?”“I hope so. I hope we are.

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    Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

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    He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years

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    Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered with light, and the spruce had become illuminated kingdoms, snow sifting from branch to branch. He thought: This has been here every winter all my life.

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    Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

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