Quotes by : Anthony Doerr

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

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

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.....

Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes....

All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the....

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary....

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim....

But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers,....

I wasn't trying to reach England. Or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my....

Life is wonderful and strange...and it’s also absolutely mundane and tiresome. It’s hilarious and....