No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
W. G. SebaldLike our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
W. G. SebaldWe take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
W. G. Sebald