When the elderly Jew climbed to his feet for the last time and continued on, he looked briefly back. He took alast sad glance at the man who was kneeling now himself, whose back was burning with four...
When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom.
When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most. Sometimes I manage to float far above those three moments. I hang suspende...
We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful...
We smell the impact of traffic and humans. Humans and traffic. Back and forth. We taste our moment, swallowing it, knowing it. We feel our nerves twitching inside our stomaches, lunging at our skin fr...
They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on occasion I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, cru...
The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cri...
She was compelled to see the thing lit. She couldn't help it. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capa...
Intanto che i bambini ballano nel giardino, sotto il cielo della notte e sotto le luci di Natale, noto qualcosa.Lua e Marie si stanno tenendo per mano.Sembrano così felici, in questo istante, mentre o...
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it.It was the best time of her life.B...
I'd wanted to stay on that porch with him until the sun shone bright on both of us, but I didn't. I stood up and walked down the steps. I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. None of those things, however, came out of my mouth. All I was able to do w...
I however, try to enjoy every color I see the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same.
Highlight: Arschloch! Papa yelped. Liesel, give me some of that snow. A whole bucket! For a few minutes, they all forgot. There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small...
He was not well-educated or political, but if nothing else, he was a man who appreciated fairness. A Jew had once saved his life and he couldn’t forget that. He couldn’t join a party that antagonized...
God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. But it's not your job to understand. That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never ans...
After all,' he said, 'you should know it yourself - a young man is still a , and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
Ти си най добрият ми приятел,Ед - казва тя след малко.-Знам.Тези думи могат да убият един мъж.Без пистолет.Без куршуми.Достатъчни са думите и едно момиче.
Противоречивите политически *** убеждения на Алекс Щайнер.Той беше член на Нациската партия, но не мразеше евреите, нито пък някой друг в това отношение. Тайно обаче, не можеше да не почуства известно...