Ana’s Reviews > Perfection > Status Update

'For Anna and Tom, this lack of plan didn't represent defeat. It was far better for Tempelhof to remain exactly as it was: a reservoir of potential futures.'

'An obsession with real estate – imported by the New Yorkers, together with the bedbugs – dominated conversation.'

'Somehow, value systems that seemed completely incompatible on social feeds could find a middle ground around a table at a café.'

'In the evenings, at the Biergarten on Paul-Lincke-Ufer or in the Russian bistro under the Wasserturm, they would often end up discussing things they had seen online, which was to say somewhere in the world, which usually meant in California or New York.'

'Everyone sought a little beauty'