Here in Berlin Quotes

“The family is a police state," the Visitor said, describing how minuscule stages lit up inside her, repeating key scenes from her life. "Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?" After a long silence, A. said: "Childhood is a city you never leave. In Berlin's past, we seek our own.”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin

“From him I’ve learned that for the truth to blossom, lies are necessary.”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin: A Novel

“Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin: A Novel

“What more do you need? Poetry? Poetry is in the living. Little Sister, in the dreaming. Nobody in the world can teach you that.”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin

“Perhaps only this: that the greatest danger in life is certainty. Yes, I do believe that. Our last redoubt in the world is wonder. Wonder and unknowing. Now and then a random detail will stir me to faint recognitions: a row of dead beetles in the grass; the chapped knees of some dowager on the S-bahn. Tantalizing signs reminding me that infinity billows out from every moment. That's when I lean in, sniff the air, cock my ears like a foxhound- and listen.”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin

“unfold an ornate portable mirror and invite my lovers”
― Cristina García, Here in Berlin: A Novel