What?! Tommy shouted. His face twitched
What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.
Well, promise me one thing, Liesel. If I die anytime soon, you make sure they bury me right.
We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind.
Un pequeño detalle: Morirás.
Un ojo abierto, el otro soñando.
To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame.
They were frightened, no question, but they were not afraid of me. It was a fear of messing up and having to face themselves again, and facing the world, and the likes of you.
They were all placed on a conveyor belt and run through a rampant machine that gave them a lifetime in ten minutes. Words were fed into them. Time disappeared and they now knew everything they needed...
There's ache in her arms and ache in her legs and heart. But on her face is the beauty of the morning.
There was a kind of generosity to her, of heat and sweat and life.
There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts
The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain.
The sun stirs the earth. Around and around, it stirs us like stew.
The stars set fire to my eyes.
The only sound I'll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps
The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy’s face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts.
The injury of words.Yes, the brutality of words.
The conversation of bullets.
The best word shakers were those who understood the true power of words. They were always able to climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the last of her...