Steve

“The sun still shines.”
― Sophie Scholl

“one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”
― Anna Funder, All That I Am

“Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.”
― Kevin Sampson, Powder

“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall