The Hunter's Wife Quotes

“But he was afraid to speak. He could see that speaking would be like dashing some very fragile bond to pieces, like kicking a dandelion gone to seed; the wispy, tenuous sphere of its body would scatter in the wind. So instead they stood together, the snow fluttering down from the clouds to melt into the water where their own reflected images trembled like two people trapped against the glass of a parallel world, and he reached, finally, to take her hand.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“There was, she was learning, strength hidden at the center of weakness, ground at the bottom of the deepest pit.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“At times he thought he was a wolf and at times he thought he was dead.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“Both of them lived in the grips of forces they had no control over--the November wind, the revolutions of the earth.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“In August she went to the river to watch her husband cast flies with a client, the loops lifting from his rod like a spell cast over the water.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“Now it was dark. The airplane descended over Chicago, its galaxy of electric lights, the vast neighborhoods coming clearer as the plane glided toward the airport--streetlights, headlights, stacks of buildings, ice rinks, a truck turning at a stoplight, scraps of snow atop a warehouse and winking antennae on faraway hills, finally the long converging parallels of blue runway lights, and they were down.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife

“Death can seem so final, like a blade dropped through the neck. But the nature of death is not at all final. It is not some dark cliff off which we leap. I hope to show you it is merely a fog, something we can peer into and out of, something we can know and face and not necessarily fear. By each life taken from our collective lives we are diminished. But even in death we have much to celebrate. It is only a transition, like so many others.”
― Anthony Doerr, The Hunter's Wife