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Anthony Doerr Quote: “He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.”

251. “He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.”

252. “But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Frederick’s dreaminess, his otherness – it’s on him like a scent, and everyone can smell it.”

253. “Frederick’s dreaminess, his otherness – it’s on him like a scent, and everyone can smell it.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Always at the end they sit side by side again and pound the cushions, and slowly the room rematerializes around them. “Ah,” he says, more quietly, his accent fading, the faintest touch of dread returning to his voice, “here we are. Home.”

254. “Always at the end they sit side by side again and pound the cushions, and slowly the room rematerializes around them. “Ah,” he says, more quietly, his accent fading, the faintest touch of dread returning to his voice, “here we are. Home.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take it from me.”

255. “But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take it from me.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Maybe... a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what’s happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.”

256. “Maybe... a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what’s happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and a writer’s, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death... And here’s the magic. You’re different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.”

257. “Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and a writer’s, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death... And here’s the magic. You’re different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “When lightning strikes at sea, why don’t all the fish die?”

258. “When lightning strikes at sea, why don’t all the fish die?”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Etienne,” Marie-Laure whispers, “are you ever sorry that we came here? That I got dropped in your lap and you and Madame Manec had to look after me? Did you ever feel like I brought a curse into your life?” “Marie-Laure,” he says without hesitation. He squeezes her hand with both of his. “You are the best thing that has ever come into my life.”

259. “Etienne,” Marie-Laure whispers, “are you ever sorry that we came here? That I got dropped in your lap and you and Madame Manec had to look after me? Did you ever feel like I brought a curse into your life?” “Marie-Laure,” he says without hesitation. He squeezes her hand with both of his. “You are the best thing that has ever come into my life.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “In the dormitory window one night, Frederick rest his forehead against the glass. “I hate them. I hate them for that.”

260. “In the dormitory window one night, Frederick rest his forehead against the glass. “I hate them. I hate them for that.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.”

261. “An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “You lose sleep, you lose your appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat – you may hate yourself for it, but the body’s demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilty about that, that he went on living, eating tomato sandwiches, going to Iditarod Days with his father, making snowballs, when his mother could not.”

262. “You lose sleep, you lose your appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat – you may hate yourself for it, but the body’s demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilty about that, that he went on living, eating tomato sandwiches, going to Iditarod Days with his father, making snowballs, when his mother could not.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Clair de Lune,” a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide.”

263. “Clair de Lune,” a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “You have minds,” Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant’s finger grazes the back of his uniform. “But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.”

264. “You have minds,” Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant’s finger grazes the back of his uniform. “But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”

265. “Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The future waited for him to keep his appointment.”

266. “The future waited for him to keep his appointment.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “I guess you could say I’ve been writing all my life.”

267. “I guess you could say I’ve been writing all my life.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “You ever hope for something so much? So much you can’t sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don’t even know if the thing you’re wishing for is possible? You don’t even know if it could happen? And it’s all out of your control?”

268. “You ever hope for something so much? So much you can’t sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don’t even know if the thing you’re wishing for is possible? You don’t even know if it could happen? And it’s all out of your control?”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Max looks up from his book and says, “Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?” “I don’t know, Max.” “A postage stamp.”

269. “Max looks up from his book and says, “Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?” “I don’t know, Max.” “A postage stamp.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “A warrior, truly engaged, does not experience guilt, fear, or remorse. A warrior, truly engaged, becomes something more than human.”

270. “A warrior, truly engaged, does not experience guilt, fear, or remorse. A warrior, truly engaged, becomes something more than human.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.”

271. “I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Nostos, yes. The act of homecoming, a safe arrival. Of course, mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery. A nostos also means a song about a homecoming.”

272. “Nostos, yes. The act of homecoming, a safe arrival. Of course, mapping a single English word onto a Greek one is almost always slippery. A nostos also means a song about a homecoming.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “She opens the door to her grandfather’s bedroom and stops. Below her, the man pauses again. Has he heard her? Is he climbing more quietly? Out in the world waits a multitude of sanctuaries – gardens full of bright green wind; kingdoms of hedges; deep pools of forest shade through which butterflies float thinking only of nectar. She can get to none of them.”

273. “She opens the door to her grandfather’s bedroom and stops. Below her, the man pauses again. Has he heard her? Is he climbing more quietly? Out in the world waits a multitude of sanctuaries – gardens full of bright green wind; kingdoms of hedges; deep pools of forest shade through which butterflies float thinking only of nectar. She can get to none of them.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

274. “That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.”

275. “He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “She finds the ribbon she uses as a bookmark, opens the book, and the museum falls away.”

276. “She finds the ribbon she uses as a bookmark, opens the book, and the museum falls away.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.”

277. “To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn’t instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don’t feel like I’m a prodigy or something.”

278. “I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn’t instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don’t feel like I’m a prodigy or something.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Werner sleeps in a tiny dormitory with seven other fourteen-year-olds. The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. Frederick is new too. He’s from Berlin. His father is assistant to an ambassador. When Frederick speaks, his attention floats up, as though he’s scanning the sky for something.”

279. “Werner sleeps in a tiny dormitory with seven other fourteen-year-olds. The bunk above belongs to Frederick: a reedy boy, thin as a blade of grass, skin as pale as cream. Frederick is new too. He’s from Berlin. His father is assistant to an ambassador. When Frederick speaks, his attention floats up, as though he’s scanning the sky for something.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.”

280. “She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.”

281. “There are moments when von Rumpel feels impatience rising in him like bile, but he forces himself to swallow it back. It will come.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Another hour, another day, another year. Lump of carbon no larger than a chestnut. Mantled with algae, bedecked with barnacles. Crawled over by snails. It stirs among the pebbles.”

282. “Another hour, another day, another year. Lump of carbon no larger than a chestnut. Mantled with algae, bedecked with barnacles. Crawled over by snails. It stirs among the pebbles.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we’re too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.”

283. “Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we’re too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Sublimity,” Hauptmann says, panting, “you know what that is, Pfennig?” He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. “It’s the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.”

284. “Sublimity,” Hauptmann says, panting, “you know what that is, Pfennig?” He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. “It’s the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “That’s how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.”

285. “That’s how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “There was a man who used that transmitter you have. Who broadcast lessons about science. When I was a boy. I used to listen to them with my sister.” “That was the voice of my grandfather. You heard him?” “Many times. We loved them.” The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.”

286. “There was a man who used that transmitter you have. Who broadcast lessons about science. When I was a boy. I used to listen to them with my sister.” “That was the voice of my grandfather. You heard him?” “Many times. We loved them.” The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. And Madame Manec: Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

287. “In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. And Madame Manec: Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Go,” says Volkheimer again. Werner looks at him a last time: his torn jacket and shovel jaw. The tenderness of his big hands. What you could be.”

288. “Go,” says Volkheimer again. Werner looks at him a last time: his torn jacket and shovel jaw. The tenderness of his big hands. What you could be.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It’s what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.”

289. “The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It’s what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.”

290. “But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.”

291. “They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann’s lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, “Make them all.”

292. “The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann’s lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, “Make them all.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “I’m scared, Papa.” “Keep hold of me.”

293. “I’m scared, Papa.” “Keep hold of me.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered entirely with a model.”

294. “In a corner of the city, inside a tall, narrow house at Number 4 rue Vauborel, on the sixth and highest floor, a sightless sixteen-year-old named Marie-Laure LeBlanc kneels over a low table covered entirely with a model.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “If your same blood doesn’t run in the arms and legs of the person you’re next to, you can’t trust anything.”

295. “If your same blood doesn’t run in the arms and legs of the person you’re next to, you can’t trust anything.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.”

296. “We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “My sister-in-law is a painter, and I’ll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She’ll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.”

297. “My sister-in-law is a painter, and I’ll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She’ll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.”

298. “His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.”

299. “The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.”

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Anthony Doerr Quote: “She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.”

300. “She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.”

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