180 Quotes by Anthony Marra

... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.

While he didn’t believe she was physically sick, he couldn’t deny the reality of her suffering.

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.

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

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

The obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else.