Quotes About Doerr

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.

Thirty-one years old, and already Naaliyah was more comfortable with insects than people: they were more chemically predictable, more elegantly designed.

That air of otherworldliness in the snarls of her hair and the fearlessness of her step.

His thoughts skirted Sandy and especially Grace as if they were fatal chasms into which he might tumble.

Beneath their wimples the faces of the nuns of the order resemble dried thistles

the America name came from a pickle seller guy who got famous because he lied about doing sex with natives)

Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind?

So really, children, mathematically, all the light is invisible

Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else. The stillness of a tree. Of a mouse blinking in the dark.

the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk.

Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege.

The Reich must need socks." "For what?" "For feet, Jutta (73).

I was a nerdy kid.