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Top 500 Anthony Doerr Quotes (2025 Update)
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Anthony Doerr Quote: “That first peach slithers down his throat like rapture. A sunrise in his mouth.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Did you know,” says Marie-Laure, “that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that.” “In one year or in one lifetime?” “I’m not sure.” “You should have asked.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Werner turns the fine-tune dial fractionally, and abruptly the voice booms into his ears, Dvee-nat-set, shayst-nat-set, davt-set-adeen, nonsense, terrible nonsense, pipelined directly into his head; it’s like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We live in exciting times, says the radio. We make no complaints. We will plant our feet firmly in our earth, and no attack will move us.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. Coal cars grind past in the wet dark. Machinery hums in the distance: pistons throbbing, belts turning. Smoothly. Madly.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Behind her leg a shy little girl – Grace – smiling up. “Dad?” It was a kind hope. But his dreams spoke to none of that: when he slept he dreamt of darkness, or of people he did not recognize, or of water closing slowly, almost gratefully, over his head.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Imogene has twenty-two birdfeeders, some pole-mounted, some suspended from eaves, platform feeders and globe feeders, coffee can feeders and feeders that look like little Swiss chalets, and every evening, when she comes home from work, she drags a stepladder from one to the next, toting a bucket of mixed seeds, keeping them full. In.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “For Werner, doubts turn up regularly. Racial purity, political purity – Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? 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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “You said that what’s so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Movies make you think civilization will end fast, like with aliens and explosions, but really it’ll end slow. Ours is already ending, it’s just ending too slow for people to notice.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Don’t you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don’t you ever want proof?” Madame Manec rests a hand on Marie-Laure’s forehead. The thick hand that first reminded her of a gardener’s or a geologist’s. “You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Good evening, he thinks. Or heil Hitler. Everyone is choosing the latter.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A spring night is a power that sweeps through the crowded sheaves of blooming tulips and pours into your heart like a river.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world – what pretensions humans have!”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “There was joy in that moment – triumph. But an unexpected fear mixed with it; the stone looked like something enchanted, not meant for human eyes. An object that, once looked at, could never be forgotten.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner’s soul. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner’s color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner’s head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. “Schnee,” the man mutters, and makes a notation. Snow. Werner’s hair is lighter than the lightest color on the board.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “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: “By then Mkondo had become more than a game; it was the one way she could be certain she was alive.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him. As though this is the end point Werner has been moving toward ever since he left Zollverein.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “As if, inside Werner’s head, an infinitesimal orchestra has stirred to life.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That great shuttles of souls might fly about faded but audible if you listen closely enough?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Werner looks at the blue of the walls and thinks of Birds of America, yellow-crowned heron, Kentucky warbler, scarlet tanager, bird after glorious bird, and Frederick’s gaze remains stuck in some terrible middle ground, each eye a stagnant pool into which Werner cannot bear to look. Relapse In late June 1942, for the first time since her fever, Madame Manec is not in the kitchen when Marie-Laure wakes.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He had a love affair with photosynthesis. He could talk about moss for an hour. He said that plants carried wisdom humans would never be around long enough to understand.”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “He scans the field. Trees, sky, hay. Darkness falling like velvet. Already a few pale stars. Marie-Laure breathes the measured breath of sleep. Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing. The locksmith reties the stone inside the bag and slips it back into his rucksack. He can feel its tiny weight there, as though he has slipped it inside his own mind: a knot.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The others in my cell are mostly kind. Some tell jokes. Here’s one: Have you heard about the Wehrmacht exercise program? Yes, each morning you raise your hands above your head and leave them there!”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “It’s as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Repository,” he finally says, “you know this word? A resting place. A text – a book – is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “I am quite gifted at waiting,” von Rumpel says in French. “It is my one great skill. I was never much good at athletics or mathematics, but even as a boy, I possessed unnatural patience. I would wait with my mother while she got her hair styled. I would sit in the chair and wait for hours, no magazine, no toys, not even swinging my legs back and forth. All the mothers were very impressed.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Where did the boy fit? He made such a faint presence. It was like being in a room with a feather. But his soul glowed with some fundamental kindness, didn’t it?”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “The wheeling of the night on its silent trunnions.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
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.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “Stones are just stone an rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Some things are simply more rare than others, and that’s why there are locks.”
Anthony Doerr Quote: “A spark in the night.”
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