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- Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave…
- But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.
- 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…
- After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next…
- I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
- She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
- A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I…
- She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought,…
- Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her…
- She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between…
- Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,…
- For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
- The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
- ***A Last note from your narrator*** I am haunted by humans.
- She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked…
- an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget…
- Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from…
- What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these…
- There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome…
- July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a…
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