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Top 500 Anthony Doerr Quotes (2025 Update)
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Anthony Doerr Quote: “If only she had brought her novel down with her.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Is it dawn? She climbs the ladder and presses her ear to the trapdoor. No more sirens. Maybe the house burned.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The bookseller said it’s in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second –.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “What we eat is a poem.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We return to the places we’re from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It wasn’t until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Bernd molders in the corner. Jutta moves through the world somewhere, watching shadows disentangle themselves from night, watching minders limp past in the dawnn. It was enough when Werner was a boy, wasn’t it? A world of wildflowers blooming up through the shapes of rusty cast-off parts. A world of berries and carrot peels ad Frau Elena’s fairy tales. Of the sharp smell of tar, and trains passing, and a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day’s light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight – every second of every day has its own magic. He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It was love. He excavated a boot print she’d left on the snowy step outside his apartment and preserved it in his freezer.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Gates were creaking open inside him – paths, long sealed off, revealed themselves once more.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “What mazes there are in this world.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege: to find a shell, to feel it, to understand only on some unspeakable level why it bothered to be so lovely. What joy he found in that, what utter mystery.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The sky a pit of violet, edged with black.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A fourth door, and a fifth, on and on until you reach a thirteenth, a little locked door no bigger than a shoe.” The children lean forward. “And then?” “Behind the thirteenth door” – the guide flourishes one of his impossibly wrinkled hands – “is the Sea of Flames.” Puzzlement. Fidgeting. “Come now. You’ve never heard of the Sea of Flames?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The year swung past the fulcrum of another equinox.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out of loudspeakers all around Zollverein, the staccato voice of the Reich grows like some imperturbable tree; its subjects lean toward its branches as if towards the lips of God. And when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “You don’t say, I’m going to be a writer when I grow up – at least I didn’t.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking?” “Doing nothing is doing nothing.” “Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Good with tools,” Herr Siedler is saying. “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you. General Heissmeyer’s schools. Best of the best. Teach the mechanical sciences too. Code breaking, rocket propulsion, all the latest.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “October is here, and bright cold winds ought to pour off the ocean; leaves ought to tumble down the alleys. But the wind has come and gone. As if deciding it did not like the changes here.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “To be a parent and take an occasional day off from being a parent is a special kind of joy – a lightening, a sweetness made sweeter by its impermanence.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Grandfather said that the ocean was large enough to contain every dream everyone had ever dreamed, but until now he had no comprehension of what that meant.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Fifteen and a half years as incontestable, a continent he’d never visit, a staircase he’d never climb.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “You think that’s going to exonerate you?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He would be relegated to a post best left fastened and buried.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Maybe the idea was that he could write so many letters, deliver so many envelopes back to Sandy, eventually he’d have sent all of himself, and could exist more there than he did here.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Knock him on the head with the umbrella stand? Jab him with the paring knife? Scream. Die. Papa.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of frost on his windshield; by a feather loosed from his pillow; by a soft, pink rim of light over the hills. He slept three or four hours a night. Some days he felt as if he were about to peel back the surface of the Earth – the trees standing frozen on the hills, the churning face of the inlet – and finally witness what lay beneath, the structure under there, the fundamental grid.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented. X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. What marvels does science cultivate here now?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the gross. In the flowers. In songs.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Then the women start up again, scheming, and gabbling. Madame Manec brushes Marie-Laure’s hair in long absentminded strokes. “Seventy-six years old,” she whispers, “and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in her eyes?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He could not look at his daughter without feeling his heart turn over.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion.”
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