Quotes by : Anna Funder

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

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

You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but....

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else.....

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just....

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed....

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her....

Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all the....