Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson f...
Only through the harshest tests can God’s chosen rise.
Не лъжи, Вернер. Залъгвай се, но не ме лъжи
The weather in this place: you can feel it between your fingers.
We are Malouins first, say the people of Saint-Malo.
They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.
Malouins send up oaths: Lord God safeguard this
Mistakes,
Marie-Laure sits in her customary spot in the corner of the kitchen, closest to the fireplace, and listens to the friends of Melanie Manec complain... Nine of them sit around the square table, knees p...
See obstacles as opportunities. See obstacles as inspiration.
Prosperity depends on ferocity.
There was our old life, in the apartment, in which we had time to finish most of the tasks we started and took long showers and remembered to water our plants. And there was our new life, in the hospi...
Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor....
Sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. Before dark, a well-dressed man with a prosthetic leg boards the train. He sits beside...
Electrons, the signal chain like a path through a crowded city,
You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing
You know how diamonds—how all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That’s how stories accumulate too.
When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance.
Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir.
Five boys later, it is Frederick’s turn. Frederick, who clearly cannot see well without his glasses. Who has not been cheering when each bucketful of water finds its mark. Who is frowning at the priso...
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