It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of...
In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you, a...
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew.
Ich fürchte ebenfalls, dass am Ende gar nichts zu Ende sein wird. Die Dinge gehen einfach weiter, solange die Erinnerung das Sagen hat und immer eine weiche Stelle in deinen Gedanken findet, um an die...
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I’d slice it open and climb through to the next one.
I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down...
I love the laughter of this night. Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality...
I imagine I’ll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I’ll wait for him to wake up, but he won’t. I’ll bury him. I’ll carry him outside, feeling his warmth t...
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.
I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness.
I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death
I buy the stale popcorn, or at least try (because Bernie, in his words, won't have it) and we go through and sit down, near where I watched from yesterday.He's given us a ticket each.'Coool Hand Luke:...
I am stupid. And kind. Which makes the biggest idiot in the world.
How'd it feel? Rube asked himself. I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.
How many people get this chance?And of those few, how many actually take it?
How about a kiss, Saumensch?He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I thi...
Ho lasciato le mie impronte sul mondo, per quanto piccole.