See obstacles as opportunities. See obstacles as inspiration.
Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone.
Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise.
Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right.
No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow,...
Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles,...
It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.
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
Five boys later, it is Frederick’s turn. Frederick, who clearly cannot see well without his glasses. Who has not been cheering when each bucketful of water finds its mark. Who is frowning at the priso...
Everyone should behave as if he carries the real thing.
Each minute that passes is one fewer in this house. In this life.
Could he, by some miracle, keep this going? Could they hide here until the war ends? Until the armies finish marching back and forth above their heads, until all they have to do is push open the door...
At dusk they pour from the sky.
— Sabe a maior lição da história? A história é aquilo que os vitoriosos determinam. Eis a lição. Seja qual for o vencedor, ele é quem decide a história.
Трябва ли просто да вървиш след стадото като овца?
Your same blood doesn’t run in the arms and legs of the person you’re next to, you can’t trust anything. And even then. It’s not
The whiteness
One with a rifle and the other wearing headphones.
Ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South
Mistakes,