There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remembe…

- Anthony Marra

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgar…

- Anthony Marra

He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headb…

- Anthony Marra

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that…

- Anthony Marra

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

- Anthony Marra

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

- Anthony Marra

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

- Anthony Marra

My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying t…

- Anthony Marra

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

- Anthony Marra