You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. The Blade and the Whelk The H
Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise.
Marie-Laure will indeed smell something, whether because her uncle is passing coffee grounds beneath her nose, or because they really are flying over the coffee trees of Boreno, she does not want to d...
Is it right, Jutta says, to do something only because everyone else is doing it? Doubts:
Hope was a sunrise, a friend in an alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.
Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.
He’ll say, You did this to me. Please. Not in front of my son.
He says, You are very brave. She lowers the bucket. What is your name? He tells her. She says, When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But...
He feels ragged. For weeks logic has been failing him. The stone the museum has asked him to protect is not real. If it were, the museum would have sent men already to collect it. Why then, when he pu...
Frederick runs hard. But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusiv...
A one-armed bunk master sets forth rules in a belligerent torrent. This is your parade uniform, this is your field uniform, this is your gym uniform. Suspenders crossed in the back, parallel in the fr...
Weaker moments, he
Then he enthuses about coal. 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 ma...
The right thing? There is pride, too,
Obstacles
In this world, they do as they’re told, they get scared, they move about with only themselves in mind.
Hand dies within a week. No, no, if you hold it, you
Extravagances unheard of a year before. Frau Elena buys a new couch upholstered in orange corduroy, and a range with burners in black rings; three new Bibles arrive from the consistory in Berlin; a la...
Below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and