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Anthony Marra is an American writer born in 1984. His works are known for their delicate emotions and profound themes, particularly for his skill in depicting the conflicts and complexities of human emotions in the Middle East.

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“There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.”

Light Life Is Stars Hours Lines Dark Maps Orbit Bulbs Moths Hypothetical

Author:Anthony Marra

“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”

Sadness Immense Mistaken Often Is

Author:Anthony Marra

“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.”

Rooms Bed Crosses Climbs Continents Sister Craters

Author:Anthony Marra

“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.”

Want Shows Stupid Maps

Book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.”

Who We Are

Author:Anthony Marra

“Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.”

Suffering Causes Sleep

Author:Anthony Marra

“But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?”

Numbers Limits Miracle Lifetime Beloved Privileged Quota

Book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.”

Meaningful

Book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.”

Moments Unpredictable Loveliness

Author:Anthony Marra

“War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.”

People War Causes Unnatural

Author:Anthony Marra

“We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.”

Soul Misery Twists

Book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

About the Author

Born: 1984
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 61

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