The Lion's Den Quotes

“Finding an empty wheelchair in front of a lion enclosure is like finding a pair of shoes at the ocean’s edge. You might look to your left and your right, but in your heart you know the only way their owner went was in.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“Honesty comes in an infinite variety, none crueler than a teenager’s tedium.”
― Anthony marra, The Lion's Den

“Natalia Ginzburg once wrote that “silence must be numbered among the strangest and gravest vices of our time.” I’d like to believe that my father”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“My dad shook his head. “Daniel was a prophet, and good for him. Better to be a prophet than a saint.” “How come?” “They had much better deaths, the prophets. You never hear of a saint dying peacefully in his sleep, do you? The saints were always getting themselves fed to the lions.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“If you want your children to believe they can change the fallen world, send them to a Quaker school. If you want to change your children to survive the world as it is, Catholicism has you covered.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“adolescence is a disorder whose physical effects are invariably treated by time. Emotionally and psychologically, it is, for some, incurable.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“parents love empty gestures. It’s about feeling that your children are decent, honest, and virtuous, rather than doing the work to make it true.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“He opened his arms as he approached, exposing a three-piece sharkskin suit tailored for the physique he aspires toward rather than the one he has.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“a good book was an escape hatch I could flee through.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“The good news is that adolescence is a disorder whose physical effects are invariably treated by time. Emotionally and psychologically, it is, for some, incurable.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“You know those elliptical machines in hotel gyms that tell you you’ve burned about five thousand calories after ten minutes of sweatless exercise?”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“She was a devout churchgoer and somewhat horrified when I informed her that Good Friday was when we celebrate crucifying the Easter Bunny.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“My mother, the most devout Catholic among us, didn’t believe in divorce, which was problematic in that her husband didn’t seem to believe in marriage.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“It takes a certain vitality to believe you can break the spirit of a belligerently cheerful AI program.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“you want to change your children to survive the world as it is, Catholicism has you covered.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den

“the cable news talking heads buzzing in my ear like a tinnitus with opinions.”
― Anthony Marra, The Lion's Den