Book Scenes that Utterly Shattered my Heart [1/5]A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water.“How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said.
How about a kiss? How about a kiss? Poor Rudy.
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On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy was robbery - so much life, so much to live for - yet somehow, I’m certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He’d have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He’d have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.
