Gone or resolved to go; is there much difference?
He blinks; he has to swallow back tears. The parlor
He found himself thinking of water, how it is never still, how even in our bodies water never relents: ceaselessly vibrating, each electron in each molecule in each cell orbiting, spinning, nine indep...
He thinks of the old broken miners he'd see in Zollverein, sitting in chairs or on crates, not moving for hours, waiting to die. To men like that time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain...
He was just a boy. They all were. Even the largest of them.
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...
Herr Siedler smiles as if to say: You and I, son, we know history takes a longer course, don't we?
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?
How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses? Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.
If your same blood doesn't run in the arms and legs of the person you're next to, you can't trust anything.
It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. Say
It seems to Werner that in the space 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.
It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colourful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifferen...
It’s surely nonsense, yet something hangs inside it, some truth he does not want to allow himself
Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.
Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.
Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren’t real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain...
Membership in the State Youth becomes mandatory. The boys in Werner’s Kameradschaften are taught parade maneuvers and quizzed on fitness standards and required to run sixty meters in twelve seconds. E...
Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I’m not to blame.
Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.
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