Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and th...
It was a tradition for Frau Holtzapfel, one of their neighbors, to spit on the Hubermanns’ door every time she walked past. The front door was only meters from the gate, and let’s just say that Frau H...
He was built like a very small supermarket: Compact; expensive if you crossed him.
For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that p...
DÖDENS DAGBOK: PARISARNA Sommaren kom.För boktjuven var allt frid och fröjd. Dör mig - var himlen judefärgad. När deras kroppar hade slutat söka efter springor i dörren steg deras själar upp. När dera...
But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the beginning that you're going to win. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with the...
As she rode, she tried to tell herself something. / You don't deserve to be this happy, Liesl. You really don't. / Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?
An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
You need life in your life.
Kissing one of the new blokes who works there. He’s
Him. Don’t think. Just swallow. As soon as Mama handed
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
You ate it up and you didn't ask for more, and you didn't complain.
You are going to die.
When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.
Two Giant Words: I'm Sorry
They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
There were great big shrugs of breath of him...