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Top 500 Anthony Doerr Quotes (2025 Update)
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Anthony Doerr Quote: “Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She finds the ribbon she uses as a bookmark, opens the book, and the museum falls away.”
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.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I guess you could say I’ve been writing all my life.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The future waited for him to keep his appointment.”
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.”
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?”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “When lightning strikes at sea, why don’t all the fish die?”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Why, Esther wonders, do any of us believe our lives lead outward through time? How do we know we aren’t continually traveling inward, toward our centers? Because this is how it feels to Esther when she sits on her deck in Geneva, Ohio, in the last spring of her life; it feels as if she is being drawn down some path that leads deeper inside, toward a miniature, shrouded, final kingdom that has waited within her all along.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets–you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are all just tenants here. Even the one thing we believe is ours – the time we’re given on earth – does that belong to us?”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I always told my dad I’d play professional football.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The dread that had been rising all morning rose higher in his throat as if by capillary action.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The dead are gone and so their power over the living is only temporary. You lose sleep, you lose 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 guilt about that, that he went on living... p 115.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We used to pick berries by the Ruhr. My sister and me.”
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.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I think about how Grandpa Z says the sky is blue because it’s dusty and octopuses can unscrew the tops off jars and starfish have eyes at the tips of their arms. I think: No matter what happens, no matter how wretched and gloomy everything can get, at least Mrs. Sabo got to feel this.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I’m scared, Papa.” “Keep hold of me.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But he didn’t have language for what he really wanted to say; he couldn’t explain how her wildness that day, on the road, had thrilled him as much as it terrified him.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are – if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “At Madame’s suggestion, they lie down in the weeds, and Marie-Laure listens to honeybees mine the flowers and tries to imagine their journeys as Etienne described them: each worker following a rivulet of odor, looking for ultraviolet patterns in the flowers, filling baskets on her hind legs with pollen grains, then navigating, drunk and heavy, all the way home. How.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “His thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Travel definitely affects me as a writer.”
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