You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.
He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.
...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.