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Anthony Doerr
“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Lionel Shriver
“Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.

Me, I’m a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Did you ever hear the famous story about breakfast on the day Mother and Father were leaving for Sweden to accept the Nobel Peace Prize? It was in The Saturday Evening Post one time. Mother cooked a big breakfast. And then, when she cleared off the table, she found a quarter and a dime and three pennies by Father's coffee cup. He'd tipped her.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

Anthony Doerr
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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Via
403 books | 42 friends

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87 books | 1 friend

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824 books | 30 friends

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400 books | 238 friends





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