“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
Anna Funder“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall“In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.”
Anna Funder, All That I Am“one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”
Anna Funder, All That I Am“-“Forced love hurts God.” -“How can you hurt something that doesn’t exist?”-“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”- “I wa”
Anna Funder, All That I Am“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”
Anna Funder“She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall“There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall“Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall“Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.”
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall