Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y v...
Every girl likes a man in uniform, said Ernst. Every girl, perhaps, remarked Beatrix. But not every uniform. You know why people wear uniforms, don’t you, Pierrot? continued the chauffeur. The boy sho...
Collars, trench coats or jackboots – uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt.
Bruno. ‘In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the
A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is...
You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don’t ever tell yourself that you didn’t know. She released him now from her grip. That would be the worst...
You fought in the Great War? a journalist from The Guardian asked me in a long interview to coincide with the presentation of the prize. I didn’t think it was all that great. I pointed out. In fact, i...
You are not there, Father, I cried. I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.And that is?...
We’re none of us normal. Not in this fucking country.
We don’t have the luxury of thinking,’ said Mother,
There is cruelty in the world, Eliza, you can see that, can’t you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
The novel was written by Anshel Bronstein, the boy who had lived in the flat below him as a child. Of course, he remembered, he had wanted to be a writer. It seemed that his ambition had come true.
Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.
Se me ocurre que, incluso aunque Zoya y yo aún seguimos vivos, mi vida ha concluido ya. No tardaré en perderla y no habrá razón para que continúe sin ella. Verán, es que somos una sola persona. Somos...
One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, having three best friends for life, sliding down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right across Berlin, and now he was stuck here in t...
My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. >>In her absence they would say that she had always been a floozy and this...
In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not kno...
Fury
But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our futures lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed...
Însă, în timp ce reflectă astfel, picioarele îl duseră pas cu pas din ce în ce mai aproape de punctul din depărtare, care între timp devenise o pată, apoi se transformă într-un strop. Și în curând dup...