"I could tell that she didn't really love me. I knew the truth, which was that if she could have chosen, it would have been my funeral we were driving to." (6) Oskar appears bitter with his mother. He blames her of his sufferings and expects her to suffer the same way he does. Of course,...

"If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice." (79) When she was a little girl, her grandfather gave her a bracelet which symbolised his love for her. It was too big to wear, it was not comfortable. It was made this way because of what symbolised: a huge love....

"[...] sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living." (113) Oskar's grandfather finds it difficult to live. How come? Well, it is true that nobody has experience in living when they are born and many of us may wonder whether or not we are doing it...