He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are - if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.
Anthony DoerrHis thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble.
Anthony Doerrhe moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one trapped underwater, under a Plexiglas floor, while the world moved on, men and women checking in and out of rooms, lugging overstuffed suitcases, the soles of their shoes passing lightly above him.
Anthony DoerrOver time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition.
Anthony DoerrEven the banana plantations, the big, hardy trees on the flanks of Mount St. Andrew, seemed to lilt and acquiesce in the heat.
Anthony DoerrTo know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.
Anthony DoerrTo a certain extent, time was malleable, what he did did matter. Grace was proof of that. Naaliyah was alive.
Anthony DoerrAnswers seemed to float through the space around him. It was about love. It was about getting handed at conception a gift that sets you apart from everyone and you spend your whole life drifting through the margins of time, not understanding hours like everyone else seems to: glancing at wristwatches, checking timetables - you hardly know what it is people are trying to accomplish when they go through their days: morning, noon, evening, night. Wake up and sleep and wake up. This was about family, how blood superseded death; it was about trying your hardest, it was about snow.
Anthony DoerrTogether, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they sent their prayers into the room.
Anthony DoerrShe was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.
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