Anthony Doerr Quotes

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Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

Anthony Doerr
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Anthony Doerr
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.

Anthony Doerr
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Anthony Doerr
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

Anthony Doerr
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Anthony Doerr
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Anthony Doerr
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

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

Anthony Doerr
Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

Anthony Doerr