German history Quotes by Jenny Erpenbeck

“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“Have the people living here under untroubled circumstances and at so great a distance from the wars of others been afflicted with a poverty…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“Quante volte bisogna tornare a imparare, a scoprire e a riscoprire ciò che già si sa, quanti travestimenti bisogna strappar via per poter penetrare…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“Home! he'd cried out like a child that would give anything not to be seeing what it was seeing, but precisely in this one…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“How many times, he wonders, must a person relearn everything he knows, rediscovering it over and over, and how many coverings must be torn…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“The Wall had turned their street into a cul-de-sac where children roller-skated. Then in 1990 the Wall was cleared away piece by piece, and…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“...but with each step you take while fleeing, your baggage grows less and less, with more and more left behind, and sooner or later…

— Jenny Erpenbeck