Charlotte

“There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both Qur'an and telephone directory returned to His mouth in the same inhalation of smoke.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena