“The contents of his plans are not nearly as important (…) as their sound—the deep sureness of them. And his voice! He has a soft voice, a voice like a piece of silk you might remove from a drawer only very occasionally, something you’d want to run your hands over again and again.”

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“Why, Esther wonders, do any of us believe our lives lead outward through time? How do we know we aren’t continually traveling inward, toward our centers? Because this is how it feels to Esther when she sits on her deck in Geneva, Ohio, in the last spring of her life; it feels as if she is being drawn down some path that leads deeper inside, toward a miniature, shrouded, final kingdom that has waited within her all along.”

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“The harbor beyond the city is calm and gray beneath a slow drizzle. (…) No boats winking out there. No buoys sounding their bells. Nothing on the horizon. Rain falls on the sea. Out there, fish travel in numberless schools and whales freight their colossal hearts through the cold dark.” #books #AnthonyDoerr #Afterworld #whales #hearts

Creation Stories

“And the light broke over the world and it broke into a thousand thousand pieces, and these pieces fell into all events and all creatures.”

Anthony Doerr – “Afterworld”

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