Quotes by : Anthony Doerr

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

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral....

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

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination....

There is pride, too, though - pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient.....

Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in....

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

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.

Silence is the fruit of occupation.

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates....