Audrey Burt’s Reviews > The Book Thief > Status Update

***A SMALL, SAD HOPE***
No one wanted to
bomb Himmel Street.
No one would bomb a
place name after
heaven,would they?
Would they?

"When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. . .Minute after minute. Shower after shower."