It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
The town itself was a hard, distant storyland; you could see it from afar. There was all the straw-like landscape, and marathons of sky. Around it, a wilderness of low scrub and gum trees stood close...
A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
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...
Je ne veux plus prier pour que M. soit sain et sauf. Ni A.S. Parce que le monde ne les mérite pas.
If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story.
Arschloch може да се преведе буквално задник. Тази дума обаче не прави разлика между половете. Тя си остава просто задник.
—Alles gut, Saumensch?No necesitaba una respuesta.Todo iba bien.Pero era terrible.
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer—proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. Five
We skip the moments like stones.
Moments, Liesel stood. The corridor was huge. She examined the soldier in her palm. Instinct told her to run home immediately, but common sense did not allow it. Instead, she placed the ragged soldier...
They sat a few meters apart, speaking very rarely, and there was really only the noise of turning pages (…) Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel wer...
When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. Their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation,...
Christ, it's defeaning. why can't the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn't care, I finally answer, and I know I'm right. It's like I have been chosen....
Yes, I have seen a great many things in this world. I attend the greatest disasters and work for the greatest villains. But then there are other moments. There’s a multitude of stories (a mere handful...
Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
—Schlaf gut,
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