Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.