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“The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked amongst the redness.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“The fatal gesture passed like the tail of a falling star across the blackness of the contemplated crime. It was like some dreadful silent ballet, the male dancer holding the ballerina by her foot and streaking down through watery twilight.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“The scrawled words of practise stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder.
They breathed.
German and Jewish lungs.”
― The Book Thief
They breathed.
German and Jewish lungs.”
― The Book Thief
“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for every just as they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters. [...] touching his hair with her lips, she thought, he will never be so happy again”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“If he put implicit faith in her, nothing should hurt him; however deep he buried himself or climbed high, not for a second should he find himself without her. So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shall of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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