Blake > Blake's Quotes

“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes