Spencer

“In the scullery she says, if the end of the world is upon them, they might as well finish all the wine.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Every day Patti Goss-Simpson brings four fish sticks to school in her Titan Deep Freeze lunch box and every day at 11:52 a.m., because the cafeteria is being remodeled, Patti puts her terrible fish sticks in the terrible microwave at the back of Mr. Bates’s room and presses the terrible beepy buttons and the smell that pours out feels to Seymour like he’s being pressed face-first into a swamp.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Anna imagines Antonius Diogenes, whoever he was, setting knife to quill, quill to ink, ink to scroll, placing one more barricade in front of Aethon, stretching time for another purpose: to detain his niece in the living world for a little longer.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land