On the opposite side, the mannequins stood like witnesses. They were serious and ludicrously stylish. It was hard to shake the feeling that they were watching everything.
On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift - to me. It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever known is not a man at all...
On Friday a statement arrived to say that Hans Hubermann was to be drafted into the German army. A member of the Party would be happy to play a role in the war effort, it concluded. If he wasn’t, ther...
Now she became spiteful. More spiteful and evil than she thought herself capable.The injury of words.Yes, the brutality of words.She summoned them from someplace she only now recognized and hurled the...
Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
Non rendetemi felice. Non riempitemi, per favore, non lasciate che mi persuada che qualcosa di buono possa venire fuori da tutto ciò. Guardate i miei lividi. Guardate questo taglio. Vedete il taglio c...
No me hagáis feliz. Por favor, no me cameléis y me dejéis creer que algo bueno puede salir de todo esto.
No começo, Liesel não conseguiu dizer nada. Talvez fosse a súbita turbulência do amor que sentiu por ele. Ou será que sempre o tinha amado? Era provável. Impedida como estava de falar, desejou que ele...
Me doy cuenta de que nada le pertenece ya y que ella pertenece a todo.
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment.'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.
Los minutos eran crueles. Las horas mortificantes. Durante los momentos de desvelo, sobre él pendía inexorablemente la mano del tiempo, la cual no dudaba en estrujarlo. Le sonreía, lo retorcía y lo de...
Ljudi nemaju srce poput mojeg. Ljudsko srce je pravac, moje je kružnica,a imam i beskrajnu sposobnost da budem u pravo vrijeme na pravome mjestu.Slobodno tome, uvijek zatičem ljude u najboljen i najgo...
Les meilleurs secoueurs de mots étaient ceux qui avaient compris le pouvoir des mots. Ceux qui pouvaient monter le plus haut. Parmi eux se trouvait une fillette toute menue. On la considérait comme la...
Koliko, zapravo, jedni drugima dopuštamo da semeđusobno upoznamo?
Just give hime five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch.
Junto a los escombros de Colonia, un grupo de niños recogía contenedores de combustible vacíos arrojados por sus enemigos. Como siempre, yo recogía humanos. Estaba cansada. Y apenas habíamos llegado a...
Jesse Owens? Mr. Steiner was the type of man who was very wooden. His voice was angular and true. His body was tall and heavy, like oak. His hair was like splinters. What about him?
I’m going to find him. Your papa? Yes. He thought about it. Actually, no. I think I’ll find the Führer instead. Faster footsteps. Why? Rudy stopped. Because I want to kill him. He even turned on the s...
I’m Angelina, she says. Are you here to save us? I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes.You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.Can you? Really?I’ll try, I say and the girl smiles.
It was as though he'd opened her palm, given her the words, and closed it up again.