To consider water on any scale was to confront a boundless repetition of small events. There were the tiny wonders: rain drops, snow crystals, grains of frost aligned on a blade of grass; and there were the wonders so immense it seemed impossible to get his mind around them: global wind, oceanic currents, storms that broke like waves over whole mountain ranges. p 46
Anthony Doerr- even in the midst of grief the mind grapples with a hundred impressions: a pain below the heart, an odor on the breeze.
Anthony DoerrThe dead are gone and so their power over the living is only temporary. You lose sleep, you lose appetite, but eventually you fall asleep and eventually you eat - you may hate yourself for it, but the body's demands are incontrovertible. He had always felt guilt about that, that he went on living... p 115
Anthony DoerrAnd this feeling, permeating every waking minute, that he had made too many wrong decisions.
Anthony DoerrHere's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.
Anthony DoerrStichwörter: words reading books literature language
it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of their thousand dens.
Anthony Doerrthe air would get so heavy with moisture he imagined he could feel each bloated molecule as it toppled into his lungs.
Anthony DoerrIn our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
Anthony DoerrHow 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 DoerrThe future waited for him to keep his appointment.
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