Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor--it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

Anthony Doerr


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The urge to know scrapes against the inability to know.

Anthony Doerr

Stichwörter: epistemology



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To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Anthony Doerr


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Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.

Anthony Doerr

Stichwörter: memory



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A travel website says that there are 280 fountains in Rome, but it seems as if there are more:...Remove them and there is no present tense, no circulatory system, nor dreams to balance the waking hours. No Rome.

Anthony Doerr


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(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines rumbling in the hallways.

Anthony Doerr


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Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.

Anthony Doerr


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What we eat is a poem.

Anthony Doerr


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Thirty-one years old, and already Naaliyah was more comfortable with insects than people: they were more chemically predictable, more elegantly designed.

Anthony Doerr


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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

Anthony Doerr

Stichwörter: travel novelty



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