Quotes by Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra

A good mixtape didn’t just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.

Emotional

Mean

Song

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we’re doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Laughing

Paper

Writing

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Different

Years

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Loveliness

Moments

Unpredictable

He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.” (ARC p. 63)

Dark

Hair

Together

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

Earth

Ends

Hands

It’s stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Maps

Stupid

Want

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Growth

Movement

Organization

She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn’t let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they’d run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.

Gratitude

Letting Go

Running

She wouldn’t climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn’t cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Bed

Rooms

Sister

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Bed

Believe

Biographies

Causes

Children

Civilization

Clothes

Coward

Dark

Different

Earth

Emotional

Ends

Gratitude

Growth

Hair

Hands

Laughing

Letting Go

Light

Loveliness

Maps

Mean

Meaningful

Misery

Moments

Movement

Organization

Paper

People

Rooms

Running

Said

Sister

Sleep

Song

Soul

Stupid

Suffering

Together

Twists

Unpredictable

Want

War

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra

Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we’re doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.” (ARC p. 63)

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

It’s stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

She wouldn’t climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn’t cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

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