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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!”

451. “You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!”

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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.”

452. “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.”

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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.”

453. “Life: it’s happening beyond the mills, beyond the gates. Out there people chase questions of great importance.”

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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.”

454. “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.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle’s inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.”

455. “When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle’s inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Good evening, he thinks. Or heil Hitler. Everyone is choosing the latter.”

456. “Good evening, he thinks. Or heil Hitler. Everyone is choosing the latter.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “A spark in the night.”

457. “A spark in the night.”

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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.”

458. “But what was family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.”

459. “Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.”

460. “As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?”

461. “Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. The appetite for oxygen is such that objects heavier than housecats are dragged into the flames.”

462. “One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. The appetite for oxygen is such that objects heavier than housecats are dragged into the flames.”

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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.”

463. “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

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.”

464. “Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

465. “The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud.”

466. “The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind.”

467. “Fog on the sea, fog in the streets, fog in the mind.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The premier achievement of human history, they said, the triumph of memory over the obliterating forces of destruction and erasure.”

468. “The premier achievement of human history, they said, the triumph of memory over the obliterating forces of destruction and erasure.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.”

469. “Opera houses! Cities on the moon! Ridiculous. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Don’t be so quick to dismiss yourself,” he says. “Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”

470. “Don’t be so quick to dismiss yourself,” he says. “Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.”

471. “They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.”

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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.”

472. “It is as if he has been drowning for as long as he can remember and somebody has fetched him up for air.”

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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.”

473. “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

Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.”

474. “We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”

475. “Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Every afternoon, whatever the weather, he stands in a field bawling state-sown dicta: “Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.”

476. “Every afternoon, whatever the weather, he stands in a field bawling state-sown dicta: “Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Singular and plural, noun stems and verb cases: Rex’s enthusiasm for ancient Greek carries them through the worst hours.”

477. “Singular and plural, noun stems and verb cases: Rex’s enthusiasm for ancient Greek carries them through the worst hours.”

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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.”

478. “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.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate.”

479. “There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.”

480. “Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.”

481. “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.”

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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.”

482. “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

Anthony Doerr Quote: “The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it’s a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it’s a kingdom. Her.”

483. “The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it’s a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it’s a kingdom. Her.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.”

484. “A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.”

485. “Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.”

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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.”

486. “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.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife – a pretty-voiced woman who smells mostly of yeast but also sometimes of face powder or the sweet perfume of sliced apples – straps a stepladder to the roof of her husband’s car and drives the Route de Carentan at dusk with Madame Guiboux and rearranges road signs with a ratchet set.”

487. “Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife – a pretty-voiced woman who smells mostly of yeast but also sometimes of face powder or the sweet perfume of sliced apples – straps a stepladder to the roof of her husband’s car and drives the Route de Carentan at dusk with Madame Guiboux and rearranges road signs with a ratchet set.”

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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.”

488. “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.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Water droplets shine in his eyelashes. Dusk seeps down through the overcast and a slight chill drops into the air and one by one families leave to walk or bike or ride the bus home.”

489. “Water droplets shine in his eyelashes. Dusk seeps down through the overcast and a slight chill drops into the air and one by one families leave to walk or bike or ride the bus home.”

— Anthony Doerr

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.”

490. “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.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Wasn’t it possible that he was carrying out some secret mission completely unknown to me?”

491. “Wasn’t it possible that he was carrying out some secret mission completely unknown to me?”

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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?”

492. “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

Anthony Doerr Quote: “The sky drops silver threads of sleet.”

493. “The sky drops silver threads of sleet.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”

494. “There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “A good journal entry – like a good song, or sketch, or photograph – ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought be a love letter to the world. 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.”

495. “A good journal entry – like a good song, or sketch, or photograph – ought to break up the habitual and lift away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought be a love letter to the world. 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

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Anna remembers something Licinius said: that a story is a way of stretching time.”

496. “Anna remembers something Licinius said: that a story is a way of stretching time.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The wheeling of the night on its silent trunnions.”

497. “The wheeling of the night on its silent trunnions.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell.”

498. “She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor. Ghosts. Germans. Snails.”

499. “From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor. Ghosts. Germans. Snails.”

— Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr Quote: “Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.”

500. “Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.”

— Anthony Doerr

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