Primero los colores.Luego los humanos.Así es como acostumbro a ver las cosas.O, al menos, así intento verlas.
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their vanishing wor...
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a few weary, poisoned cheeks. I listened to their last, gasping cries. Their French words....
Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.Yes. I like that a lot.
Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sk...
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment.
Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. After a month, the wall was recoated. A fresh cement page.
Outside is dark.The kitchen light is loud.It deafens me as I walk towards it.
Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor’s wife at her husband’s desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new...
Oh, how the clouds stumbled in and assembled stupidly in the sky.Great obese clouds.Dark and plump.Bumping into each other. Apologizing. Moving on and finding room.
Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words. Silence was n...
Now he turned on to the side street, making his way to number thirty-three, resisting the urge to smile, resisting the urge to sob or even imagine the safety that might be awaiting him. He reminded hi...
Normalmente vamos por la vida reyéndonos constantemente lo que nos decimos. «Estoy bien», decimos. «Estoy genial.» Pero de vez en cuando la verdad se te echa encima y no puedes sacudírtela. Entonces t...
No snapping, slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake from a bad dream, not when you wake into one.
No podía hacer nada contra la atracción que ejercían los libros sobre ella.
Može li netko ukrasti sreću? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, paklenski ljudski trik?
Mi única preocupación es que cada vez que he deseado que algo suceda de una manera, ocurre del modo contrario, como si todo estuvieraperfectamente diseñado para enfrentarme a lo desconocido.
Menschen sterben an gebrochenem Herzen. Sie bekommen Herzinfarkte. Und es ist das Herz, das am meisten wehtut, wenn etwas schief geht und auseinander fällt.
Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
Max, she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. 'There was once a strange, small man,' she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. But there was a...