Father shoves things into what
Everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.
What treasures they left behind! A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix. A great pink hunk of beryl like a crystallized brain. A violet column of tourmaline from Madagascar that look...
What the war did to dreamers
Well, Fredde has all the best there at that school, all the
There, thinks Werner when he finds it again, there: a feeling like shutting your eyes and feeling your way down a mile-long thread until your fingernails find the tiny lump of a knot.
The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.
That first peach slithers down his throat like rapture. A sunrise in his mouth.
Something
Over Volkheimer’s shoulder, through the cracked rear window of the truck shell, Werner watches a red-haired child in a velvet cape float six feet above the road. She passes through trees and road sign...
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. He
O tempo é algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas mãos para sempre.
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...
Marie-Laure taps on her door, waits a hundred heartbeats.
Marie-Laure lee a Julio Verne en la conserjería, en el baño, en los corredores. Lee en los bancos que hay en la galería central y en cualquiera de los cientos de senderos de grava que hay en los ajrdi...
Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.
I don’t want to make trouble, Madame. Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking? Doing nothing is doing nothing. Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
Her voice like a bright, clear window of sky. Her face a field of freckles. He thinks: I don't want to let you go.
Extirpation?
Every process must by law decay.