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Top 500 Anthony Doerr Quotes (2025 Update)
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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Life: it’s happening beyond the mills, beyond the gates. Out there people chase questions of great importance.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall – even in sleep, a tableau of friction.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “All of it is burning. Every memory he ever made.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “This is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass. Why doesn’t the wind move the light?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It was the summer when fireflies showed up in Saint-Malo, and their father was very excited, building long-handled nets for his boys and giving them jars with wire to fasten over the tops, and Etienne and Henri raced through the tall grass as the fireflies floated away from them, illuming on and off, always seeming to rise just beyond their reach, as if the earth were smoldering and these were sparks that their footfalls had prodded free.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Three a lucky number, Chryse always said: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Birth, life, death. Past, present, future.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I,” she says, “am Aethon, a simple shepherd from Arkadia, and –.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are dust only after all our water evaporates.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “De entre todas las cosas que he visto en la vida, creo que el mar es mi favorita.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Each of these books, child, is a door, a gateway to another place and time. You have your whole life in front of you, and for all of it, you’ll have this. It will be enough, don’t you think?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. She reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls – each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A moment like this – the four of them around the table under the sad, dusty kitchen lamp – could never accommodate all the things she had to say.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Singular and plural, noun stems and verb cases: Rex’s enthusiasm for ancient Greek carries them through the worst hours.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Anna remembers something Licinius said: that a story is a way of stretching time.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She clutches the sack. West, she thinks, this is all she knows, west where the sun goes down, west across the Propontis, and her mind sends up visions of the blessed island of Scheria, and of the bright oil and soft bread of Urbino, and of Aethon’s city in the clouds, each paradise blurring into the last. It does exist, Aethon-the-fish told the wizard inside the whale. Otherwise what’s it all been for?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Thermal scanners? Laser sights? Above the junipers, a trio of blue lights hover: some kind of remote-controlled drone. These, the creatures we have chosen to repopulate the earth.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The sky drops silver threads of sleet.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The last of autumn’s leaves spiraling to earth.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Wasn’t it possible that he was carrying out some secret mission completely unknown to me?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Werner Pfennig grows up three hundred miles northeast of Paris in a place called Zollverein: a four-thousand-acre coalmining complex outside Essen, Germany. It’s steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes. Smokestacks fume and locomotives trundle back and forth on elevated conduits and leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It is as if he has been drowning for as long as he can remember and somebody has fetched him up for air.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “In the candlelight, she looks of another world, her face all freckles, and in the center of the freckles those two eyes hang unmoving like the egg cases of spiders. They do not track him, but they do not unnerve him, either; they seem almost to see into a separate, deeper place, a world that consists only of music.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye – the body can never be pure. But this is what the.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else. The stillness of a tree. Of a mouse blinking in the dark.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The wizard laughed. “Even if you grew wings, foolish fish, you could not fly to a place that is not real.” “Wrong,” I said, “it does exist. Even if you don’t believe in it, I do. Otherwise what’s it all been for?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A single fruit fly in his wine can send a black thread twisting through his mood that lingers for days. Widow Theodora says that Kalaphates needs compassion, that the remedy to every woe is prayer, and after dark Maria kneels in their cell in front of the icon of Saint Koralia, her lips moving silently, sending devotions up past the beams.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Why can’t healing happen as quickly as wounding?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Drunken, foolhardy Aethon mistakes a magical city in a play for a real place. He sets off for Thessaly, land of magic, and accidentally turns himself into a donkey.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But what was family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She stands alone in Madame Manec’s room and smells peppermint, candle wax, six decades of loyalty. Housemaid, nurse, mother, confederate, counselor, chef – what ten thousand things was Madame Manec to Etienne?”
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