180 Quotes by Anthony Marra

The problem with rejection is that it feels imposed even when it’s earned.

You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other’s miseries. It is that which makes us family.

She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns.

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 how to get to the time when you want to be.

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 written.

No one can take what’s inside your head once it’s there.

There are so many paths to contentment if you’re open to self-delusion.

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

In the flash there’s no final thought, no final reflection, just the breath carried from her body on the back of the bullet.