Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
("The Book Thief")
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The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.
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They're the ones I can't stand to look at, although on occasion I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.
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If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
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