But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.
Anthony DoerrHe was failing at everything important. A room away his daughter was sitting with her face in her hands and he could not go to her.
Anthony DoerrAll the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.
Anthony DoerrIn the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.
Anthony DoerrThe sky a pit of violet, edged with black.
Anthony DoerrEvery second a million petitions wing past the ear of God. Let it be door number two. Get Janet through this. Make Mom fall in love again, make the pain go away, make this key fit. If I fish this cove, plant this field, step into this darkness, give me the strength to see it through. Help my marriage, my sister, me. What will this fund be worth in thirteen days? In thirteen years? Will I be around in thirteen years? And the most unanswerable of unanswerables: Don't let me die. And: What will happen afterward? Chandeliers and choirs? Flocks of souls like starlings harrying across the sky? Eternity; life again as bacteria, or as sunflowers, or as a leatherback turtle; suffocating blackness; cessation of all cellular function.
Anthony DoerrA torrent of language, a spring off the near-infinite stream of confessions he had harbored half his life, all of hers.
Anthony DoerrNothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.
Anthony DoerrBut what was family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time. If he had learned anything it was the family was not so much what you were given as what you were able to maintain.
Anthony DoerrHer smile was genuine-looking and later he would mull her question over and over in his head until it mushroomed into something larger.
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