The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much… — Nicole Krauss
The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?
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