Maxim Leo > Quotes

“home. She would have sat in her armchair on the veranda with a pot of tea and a book. As if nothing had happened, as if the world out there were just as unchanged as her comfortable study.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Der Westen ist bunt und spannend. Er riecht nach Kaffee und Kaugummi.”
― Maxim Leo, Haltet euer Herz bereit: Eine ostdeutsche Familiengeschichte

“I think I never felt so close to the GDR as I did after its downfall.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“The actress advises me to go to the lawyer Lothar de Maizière,”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“think it was very embarrassing for me to be a victim. They hit me where it hurt, they injured my sense of self. I”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“The stamp thuds on the paper and I go on to the metal door that only has a handle on the inside. The door slams behind me like a mousetrap. I’m home again.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Only today does she wonder how her parents managed to leave her on her own for two years just because the Party had decided that East German children can’t go to a Western school.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Anyone who gives in once will do it over and over again, and anyone who has been punished will never wash that stain away.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Anyone who wears jeans and slip-on shoes is a class enemy.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“because the comrades in Berlin think it’s unsuitable for East German children to attend a Swiss school, Anne is taught at home by her mother.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“snogging”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Citroën Pallas GSA.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

“Dancing openly is forbidden in the GDR.”
― Maxim Leo, Red Love: The Story of an East German Family