Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that ev… - Markus Zusak

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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

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