180 Quotes by Anthony Marra

She wouldn’t climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn’t cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

When he felt like a criminal, he reminded himself that a land without law is a land without crime.

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

Even as a child she had hated children; she still did.

If there is an operation, and if that operation is successful, she says she will move to Sweden. I fear for her future in a country whose citizenry is forced to assemble its own furniture.

The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn’t added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it’s peace of a kind he hadn’t imagined himself worthy of receiving.

As someone whose days were defined by the ten thousand ways a human can hurt, she needed, now and then, to remember that the nervous system didn’t exist exclusively to feel pain.

To live with dignity meant a premature death.

I guess our lives are all dreams – as real to us as they are meaningless to everyone else.