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- The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.
- You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a…
- I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its…
- 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…
- When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to…
- 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…
- His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I…
- I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a…
- A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He…
- When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in…
- 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…
- He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I…
- If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable…
- The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or…
- She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging onto her as she hauled the words in and breathed them…
- 20 minutes later: a girl on Himmel Street. She looks up. She speaks in whisper. ‘The sky is soft today, Max. The clouds are so…
- Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring…
- It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You…
- I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
- ...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
- When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a…
- All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were…
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