When he turns to go, the perfumer’s
Viktoriastrasse
Open your eyes and see what you can before they close forever.
Is it right, Jutta says, to do something only because everyone else is doing it? Doubts:
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Everyone
Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.
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...
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...
Fill your lungs. Beat your heart.
Every rumor carries a seed of truth, Etienne. All
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...
«Piensa en los obstáculos como en oportunidades,
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 whiteness
Straining insects above a roadside ditch.
Land mines explode in front
He can
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...
You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. The
Wednesdays. You will strip away