On the ration cards of Nazi Germany, there was no listing for punishment, but everyone had to take their turn. For some it was death in a foreign country during the war. For others it was poverty and...
The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our own place is small perhaps, but when your old man is eaten up by his own shadow, you realize maybe that in e...
You're a dead man. I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my...
The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.
Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida:1. Que se haría la raya del pelo en el lado contrario a todos los demás.2. Que se dejaría un pequeño y ext...
I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it w...
You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.
Milk,
I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.
You hungry?' Rudy asked. Liesel replied, 'Starving.' For a book.
—He venido —susurro— por ti.
Tried praying for him ...but I couldn't. I just couldn't. Don't ask me why. I hoped that he was okay, but I couldn't summon the strength to pray for it.
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound o...
It was the best time of her life.But it was bombing carpet.Make no mistake.Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for summer’s duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abrupt...
Once in while a man or a woman--no, they were not men and women; they were Jews--would find Liesel's face among the crowd. They would meet her with their defeat, and the book thief could do nothing bu...
Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.
A veces pienso que mi padre es un acordeón porque oigo sus notas cuando me mira y sonríe y respira.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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