Anna Funder Quotes
Collection of top 31 famous quotes about Anna Funder
Anna Funder Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Anna Funder quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
My body floated, loose from spent pleasure.
— Anna Funder
Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings
— Anna Funder
In August, the Hungarians cut the barbed wire at their border with Austria, creating the first hole in the Eastern Bloc.
— Anna Funder
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
— Anna Funder
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
— 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
People were crazy with pain and secrets.
— Anna Funder
The judge, for instance, who signed the warrant for Charlie's arrest that last time he went into remand is still on the bench.
— Anna Funder
When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.
— Anna Funder
At ground level Alexanderplatz is a monstrous expanse of grey concrete designed to make people feel small. It works.
— Anna Funder
They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.
— Anna Funder
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
I am a woman on her way to eat cake.
— Anna Funder
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
— Anna Funder
Apparently, even in the GDR, sleep deprivation amounted to torture, and torture, at least of minors, was not official policy.
— Anna Funder
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
— Anna Funder
Laid out upright and end to end, the files the Stasi kept on their countrymen and women would form a line 180 kilometres long.
— Anna Funder
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
— Anna Funder
At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,
— Anna Funder
