“Perhaps because of all the money poured into this, the things behind the spanking displays look old and crummy, like articles from… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“For almost a year, from June 1948 to October 1949, they kept the city alive by plane. In that time American and… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“History was so quickly remade, and so successfully, that it can truly be said that the easterners did not feel then, and do not… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Such applications were sometimes granted because the GDR, unlike any other eastern European country, could rid itself of malcontents by ditching them into West… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“anti-fascist protective measure’. I have always been fond of this term which has something of the prophylactic about it, protecting easterners from the western… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“Julia and her family, like many others in the GDR, trod this line between seeing things for what they were in the GDR, and… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
