Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
They're memories
Father dislikes weaponry of any sort. Yes, he's even suspicious of Mother's knitting scissors, Barnaby B pointed out. He feels all warfare should be conducted with taunts and gibes and vicious rumors.
Cooking's a bother.
Gabe?The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. There could be love, Jonas whispered.
Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
Ellen’s parents? We must help them, too! We couldn’t take all three of them. If the Germans came to search our apartment
I cannot kill someone, he thought.
That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder,...
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.
Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.
I think that is not true, Uncle Henrik said. I think you are like your mama,and like your papa, and like me. Frightened, but determined, and if the time came to be brave, I quite sure you would be ver...
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse;...
We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
What is in here? he asked loudly.
She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of...
We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. {...} We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
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