180 Quotes by Anthony Marra

You shouldn’t rush, he said. There are no taste buds in your stomach.

We should all be so lucky to get from life a sunny-day swim in chemical waste.

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it’s a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

What divine imagination could conjure something so imperfect as life?

You might question a belief that so readily betrays its believers.

His face was broken in a way Akhmed couldn’t look at, let alone understand, let alone mend.

Everything large enough to love eventually disappoints you, then betrays you, and finally, forgets you. But the things small enough to fit into a shoebox, these stay as they were.

Wealth announces itself with what’s easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

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