We Germans Quotes

“Where there is still shame, there may yet be virtue.”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans

“Suffering made me understand that the traffic lights are random. It showed me what life looks like when not distorted by hope, or pinned in shape by laws: a vast teeming featureless crowd where some suffer and some have happy lives, and there is no reason.”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans

“Nothing in us stays constant. Our minds are not an archive; everything is always being re-digested by the present. Memories fade; my scars get paler every year; grass grows back endlessly over scorched earth.”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans

“This was when everyone got to hear and repeat his famous motto, Klotzen, nicht kleckern [Don’t spatter them; whack them].”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans

“But Jansen seemed not to want to adapt. He wasn’t developing the cautious, ruthless, practical outer layer, alert to threat but numb to trauma, that characterised the people who survived longest.”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans

“That was Jansen’s best chance, to watch and imitate those, like Ottermann, who’d reached the point of expertise at which whatever killed them was unlikely to be their fault.”
― Alexander Starritt, We Germans