Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.
Jay WoodmanTags: world silence sea crack wall
I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall.
Nalini SinghA question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.
Brian McGreevyTags: question standing door job long wall
A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.
Molly FriedenfeldTags: wisdom truth love knowledge compassion inspiration peace inspirational-quotes joy honor wall
Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?
Israelmore AyivorTags: fear success passion power weak action failure dare afraid defeat obstacles barriers move don-t-give-up foundation walls wall never-give-up frighten potentials don-t-quit extra-mile
Ci abituiamo di nuovo a dormire tranquilli. Viviamo senza risparmiarci, come ce ne fosse anche troppa di questa strana sostanza ch'è la vita, come se non dovesse avere mai fine.
Christa WolfTags: berlin wall ddr letteratura-tedesca christa-wolf der-geteilte-himmel german-literature il-cielo-diviso
Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it.
I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen you are invulnerable. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become.
She says suddenly, 'I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well now.' She holds out her hands. The soft parts of her palms are crazed with definite white scares, each about a centimeter long.
The first fence was wire mesh with a roll of barbed wire along the top.
Tags: freedom belief courage scars dark-humor escape teenager self-belief gdr wall berlin-wall captive fence barb-wire escape-attempt
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