Janette

“To select one word was to commit to a single path when the maze contains thousands.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“By age seventeen he [Seymoure Sthulman]'d convinced himself that every human being he saw was a parasite, captive to the dictates of consumption. But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we all are beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“It’s not so much the contents of the song. It’s that the song was still being sung.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you’re this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land