How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing?
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses? Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?
Her hands find Madame's face, and the old woman's cheek is so hot that Marie-Laure'so fingers recoil as though scalded. She scrambles upstairs, stumbling, shouting, Uncle! Uncle! The whole house turni...
He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.
He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor
Gone or resolved to go; is there much difference?
Every process must by law decay.
Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying terri...
Então, crianças, como o cérebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constrói para nós um mundo cheio de luz?
Deep in Madame's voice, Marie-Laure hears water: atolls and archipelagos and lagoons and fjords.
Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune.’
Consider a single piece glowing in your family’s stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once a green plant, a fern or reed that lived one million years ago, or maybe two million, or maybe one...
Can deaf people hear their heartbeat, Frau Elena? Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?
Calm, weary voices directing fire. The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. This way, please.
But to raise one’s hopes is to risk their falling further.
Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.
All twelve children sit riveted. In the play, the invaders pose as hook-nosed department-store owners, crooked jewelers, dishonorable bankers; they sell glittering trash; they drive established villag...
Abram os olhos e vejam o máximo que puderem antes que eles se fechem para sempre.
A vida toda você espera; agora, quando finalmente acontece, você está pronto?