What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.
What about her? Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who’s ever belonged to a family. It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members but t...
We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind.
Usko minua kun sanon, että sinä päivänä poimin jokaisen sielun kuin se olisi vastasyntynyt. Jopa suutelin muutamia uupuneita, myrkytettyjä poskia.
Un niño y una niña se entrelazaban en Münchenstrasse.Se retorcían, incómodos, en el asfalto.Juntos, vieron desaparecer a los humanos. Los vieron disolverse en el aire húmedo como si fueran grageas en...
Tradition can be a dirty word, especially around Christmas. Families all over the globe get together and enjoy each other's company for all of a few minutes. For an hour, they endure each other. After...
Tomaré tu alma en mis manos, un color se posará sobre mi hombro y te llevaré conmigo con suma delicadeza.
To moje srdce je unavené. Třináctileté srdce by si tak připadat nemělo.
Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.
Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places. This one was sent out by the breath of an accordion, the odd taste of ch...
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...
They fought like champions.For a minute.Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful parent.
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it had been empty.
There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange.Something about a kiss.Something about a Saumensch.How many times did she ha...
There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop...
Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.
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 minutes were cruel. Hours were punishing. Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn’t hesitate to wring him out. It smiled and squeezed and let him live. Wha...
The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.
The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang its songs. You waited for its fire.