Headbirths Quotes

“Now that you are dead, I am aging more perceptibly. My courage, which was doing fine only yesterday, has furled several sails.”
― Günter Grass, Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out

“Maybe what prevents me from letting them be is that my growing children bring school into the house day after day: the generation-spanning fed-upness, the to-do over grades, the search, straying now to the right and now to the left, for meaning, the fug that stinks up every cheerful breath of air! — And yet Dörte and Harm took up teaching with the best of intentions...”
― Günter Grass, Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out

“Since Harm and Dörte have not known fascism, the word springs more quickly to their lips than either is prepared to tolerate in the other. Such a handy word. Always fits a little.”
― Günter Grass, Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out

“Dr. Wenthien smiles. He understands. Nothing human is alien to him.”
― Günter Grass, Headbirths: or The Germans are Dying Out