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.
When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve.
They're memories
Cooking's a bother.
I cannot kill someone, he thought.
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.
Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
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.
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...
We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.
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,...
Ravaged all,Bogo tabalTimore toronTotoo now gone...
Ellen’s parents? We must help them, too! We couldn’t take all three of them. If the Germans came to search our apartment
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...
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
Together the fugitives slept though the first dangerous day.