Quotes by : Anthony Doerr

Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness.....

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

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains....

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

What the war did to dreamers.

Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio....

I think about how Grandpa Z says the sky is blue because it's dusty and octopuses can unscrew the tops....

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget....

The moonlight shines and billows; the broken clouds scud above the trees. Leaves fly everywhere. But....

I am only alive because I have not yet died.