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Category: Anthony Marra

She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.

apocalypse, religion

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

activism, dissent, protest

There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn’t distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both Qur’an and telephone directory returned to His mouth in the same inhalation of smoke.

You shouldn’t rush, he said. There are no taste buds in your stomach.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

fluency, foreign, language

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

knowledge, language

If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

Wealth announces itself with what’s easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja’s gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.

family-relationships, sibling-rivalry