SL NLMG Quotes Flashcards
‘smuggle’ citizens…
‘into other realms’
‘not denying…
certain things, implying others’
‘obediently…
pulled their cards’ out
stop ‘thinking…
about the past’
‘I dislike being…
made aware that my heart is just a small pump’
‘the willingness of…
Germans to subject themselves to authority.’
‘socialism’ ‘can continue to…
exist…regardless of the miseries of history’
‘stream of…
passengers…weaving head-down’
their life memories and a childhood that…
‘no one can take away’
‘a look…
at that Wall of theirs’
‘started wondering if…
maybe it was all feasible’
‘tempted…
to ignore her’.
‘her kindness…
warms me already’
‘one or other…
of you could be one of them’
‘a harsh, cruel world’
‘there was no way to reverse the process’.
it is hard to…
‘be sure of anything, of anyone’
‘maybe I’m…
remembering it wrong’
‘hero…
and criminal status’
‘a shameless…
moral gymnast’
‘raging…
shouting, swinging his fists’
‘if she had…
a future it was over there’
‘we made…
jokes about’.
‘we hadn’t…
given it much thought’.
‘the confines’
‘no one would stop’ them
‘I kept going – even…
when I heard Ruth’s urgent whisper to me to come back’.
‘rework your past…
…until it is shiny and smooth’
‘we talked only about…
the less important things’
‘long-term aspirations’
his world ‘could all change again’
‘much more…
at home’ when unified with victims
‘the only way to stop…
us being swept away into the night’ was to ‘hold onto each other’.
Frau Paul ‘great…
humanity’ and ‘courage’
‘obsession,…
caused by what they did to her’
to ‘plan ahead’…
is ‘an unbearable obligation’
‘like a dog…
watching TV…it can’t make out what’s happening’
‘things had been…
put behind glass, put they were not yet over’.
‘it feels just…
about right to be finishing at last’.
‘wear…
you down’
‘We weren’t…
seriously against the state.’
Chrissie completion
‘I can’t believe Rodney was okay about it’.
they are nothing but a ‘zombie’…
to improve their ‘pliability’.
‘all these…
other things to think about’
‘beam benign…
Germanness around the globe’
‘locked away anyone…
who might…in some way embarrass the government’
‘I have…
to keep going’.
‘you would come to think…
of your past as a landscape you travelled through without noticing the signs’.
‘cannot…
have structure imposed on’
‘stuck in…
the amber of memory’
‘wariness’ and expectation…
that Kathy would ‘do something to her’
‘the picture she has…
of herself is one the Stasi made for her’
‘that room [office] was
offered and refused, and a soul buckled out of shape, forever’
‘they have nothing…
else to believe’
‘the picture we make of…
ourselves… sustains us
‘coloured a…
cheap and nasty world golden’
‘prepare tea and scones’ ‘Hailsham students’…
‘were all very special’
‘built on lies’
‘singing the truth’.
‘one can never…
say that something is impossible’
‘I was scared…
I’d suffer some traffic accident or a mishap at work’
‘how slight…
she is underneath’
‘prison left…
me with strange little tics’.
‘a cigarette’…
which ‘sits forgotten in the ashtray’
‘I waited to…
see a flash of the old Laura…none of that came’.
‘so close to…
the pain and the worry’
‘if you didn’t…
buck the system, then it wouldn’t harm you’.
‘no one is
interested in these people’
‘she was probably embarrassed…
about it…the whole thing had shrunk in her memory’.
‘nagging…
feeling would always be there’.
‘we’ve loved…
each other all our lives’
‘welcome…
chance to rest’
‘it was mainly because informers…
got the feeling…they were somebody’ ‘had it over others’
‘she always wanted to believe…
in things’
‘most obscure roads…
covered ‘in darkness’
Willingness to stay in the dark
‘she was brave…
and strong and broken all at once’
‘fearful of the world’…
‘somewhere deep down’
‘she made a point of staring…
back at me blankly’
‘acclimatising…
to the thinning of the atmosphere’
‘climbing the steps head down,…
just following the heels of the person in front’
‘bring them up…
loyal to the state’
‘i held myself tight…
so as not to scream…this land howled back at me’
‘monstrous…
expanse of grey concrete’
‘forget for whole stretches…
of time who we really were’
