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:
Reading again: Who could possibly calculate the minimum time required for us to get out? Might we not be asphyxiated before the Nautilus could surface? Was it destined to perish in this tomb of ice al...
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
Volkheimer is gone; there are stories that he has become a fearsome sergeant in the Wehrmacht. That he led a platoon into the last town on the road to Moscow. Hacked off the fingers of dead Russians a...
The Reich must need socks.
It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now. Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our
It is right to do something only because everyone else is doing it?
What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.
That little rock you’re so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it. Wars might have been fou...
That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right...
A tall window: five dozen inch-tall storm troopers march there, each toy man with a brown shirt and tiny red armband, some with flutes, some with drums, a few officers astride glossy black stallions.
[Time is] a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working hard not to spill one single drop.
They lie on their stomachs and page through comics, feeling the pleasure of being outside of school, glancing at each other now and then as if curious to learn whether their friendship will continue t...
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever
Below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and
The skin around the assistant director's eyes stretches.
There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall ju...
Weaker moments, he
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