cell had been used to house old furniture in need of repair and was cluttered, but dry and relatively clean. Rather than make him wait while they emptied it completely, they'd left a few pieces behind. A cracked washtub, a rickety table, and my old bed with the broken leg weren't much, but they were more than most prisoners had.
Ferandom AGцитирует2 года назад
who would telephone me whenever my little children moved
quién me llamaría por teléfono cada vez que mis hijos pequeños se mudaran
Ferandom AGцитирует2 года назад
I was never entirely sure how many flats there were in the house, nor how many of them were occupied.
Nunca estuve del todo seguro de cuántos pisos había en la casa, ni cuántos de ellos estaban ocupados.
Irasema Diazцитирует9 месяцев назад
Coraline sighed. ‘You really don’t understand, do you?’ she said. ‘I don’t want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn’t mean anything. What then?’
Carmen García Lцитируетв прошлом году
I’d wanted to write a story for my daughters that told them something I wished I’d known when I was a boy: that being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.
Carmen García Lцитируетв прошлом году
‘It’s Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline,’ said Coraline.
Carmen García Lцитируетв прошлом году
wasn’t the kind of rain you could go out in, it was the other kind, the kind that threw itself down from the sky and splashed where it landed.
Carmen García Lцитируетв прошлом году
it smelled like something very old and very slow.
Carmen García Lцитируетв прошлом году
‘Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.’
Daniela Castilloцитирует2 года назад
I’d wanted to write a story for my daughters that told them something I wished I’d known when I was a boy: that being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.