She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, a…”

“She sang a song, but it was so quiet that Liesel could not make it out. The not…”

“Her heart at that point was slippery and hot, and loud, so loud so loud.”

“I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I coul…”