The mind craves ease; it encourages the senses to recognize symbols, to gloss. It makes maps of our kitchen drawers and neighborhood streets; it fashions a sort of algebra out of life. And this is use...
The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold.
The burgeoning of light. The tender hissing of grass. Jutta opens her eyes but doesn't look at him. 'Don't tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don't lie to me,' (133).
That’s the Staatsoper, says Neumann Two one night. The facade of a grand building rises gracefully, pilastered and crenelated. Stately wings soar on either side, somehow both heavy and light. It strik...
That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly abou...
Soon there was a horizon, ironed flat as if by the load of the sky, and a sailboat toiling across it.
Sometimes, in the darkness, Werner thinks the cellar may have its own faint light, perhaps emanating from the rubble, the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk....
Snowy, milky, chalky. A color that is the absence of color. Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.
Siga a lógica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solução. Toda fechadura tem sua chave.
She thinks: They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne
Rain falls so lightly that it seems indistinguishable from fog.
Para aquellos hombres el tiempo era un exceso, un barril que se vaciaba lentamente. Cuando en realidad, piensa él, se parece más a un charco luminoso que uno lleva entre las manos y debe proteger con...
Only through the hottest fires can be purification achieved. Only through the harshest test's can the God's chosen rise
Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.
If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything.
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 made her the glowing hot center of his life; he made her feel as if every step she took was important.