I don’t want to make trouble, Madame. Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking? Doing nothing is doing nothing. Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
The vice minister’s wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.
You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. The
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Everyone
I think, Werner says, feeling as though some cupboard in the sky has just opened, we just found a radio.
I wasn't trying to reach England. Or Paris. I thought that if I made the broadcast powerful enough, my brother would hear me. That I could bring him some peace, protect him as he had always protected...
Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.
Assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.
The universe is full of fuel.
In another half second her father’s hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and dau...
It becomes known as the time of the ostriches. Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they? Maybe everybody does, she murmurs. Madame
In stormy light, its granite glows blue. At the highest tides, the sea creeps into basements at the very center of town. At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out abov...
That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from...
Maybe living was no more than getting swept over a riverbed and eventually out to sea, no choices to make, only the vast, formless ocean ahead, the frothing waves, the lightless tomb of its depths.
One with a rifle and the other wearing headphones.
Weaker moments, he
Into the stillness come the voices of his masters, echoing from one side of his head while memory speaks from the other.
Is it right to do something only because everyone else is doing it? - Jutta
Is it right, Jutta says, to do something only because everyone else is doing it? Doubts: slipping in like eels.
Is it right, Jutta says, to do something only because everyone else is doing it? Doubts:
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