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"It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. A town on the northern coast of France? Love? Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right."

MAKE IT STOP!!

i'm literally crying so hard rn i cannot breathe anthony watch out im going to GET YOU FOR THIS 😭

"Werner is listening to the repaired transceiver, feathering the tuning knob back and forth, when a girl's voice says directly into his good ear: At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent blow ... He is here. He is right here below me. Do something. Save her."

im at the point where this novel becomes a thriller and i cannot sit still while reading. I AM STRESSED OUT BUT I HAVE READ THIS ALL BEFORE!!

"Of course it matters. I want to be an engineer. And you want to study birds. Be like that American painter in the swamps. Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?"
A stillness in the room...
"Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life."

Yeah so i'm gonna throw up

"..every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right... Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warbler fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. Frederick hardly ever thinks of himself. Frederick is stronger than he is in every imaginable way. Werner opens his mouth but closes it again; he drowns; he shuts his eyes, his mind."
UGH JUST KILL MEEE

"You know what I used to listen to? On our radio? Before you ruined it?"
"Hush, Jutta. Please."
"Broadcasts from Paris. They'd say the opposite of everything Deutschlandsender says. They'd say we were devils. That we were committing atrocities. Do you know what atrocities means?"
"Please, Jutta."
"Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?"
ugh okay ruin me

"Space, time, mass. The air swarms with so much that is invisible! How he wishes he had eyes to see the ultraviolet, eyes to see the infrared, eyes to see radio waves crowding the darkening sky, flashing through the walls of the house."

Werner is so cute and real man I hope nothing bad happens to him..

"Of course it matters. I want to be an engineer. And you want to study birds. Be like that American painter in the swamps. Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?" ohmy gof