Quote by Anna Funder

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

— Anna Funder

“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

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

— Anna Funder

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

— Anna Funder