Swimming In The Dark Quotes
"My body feels depleted, like a foreign country after a war."
"Clothes lying around the floor like unfinished thoughts."
"Some things cannot be erased through silence."
"Some people, some events, make you lose your head."
"Granny's family was forced to leave their land... They ended up in Wroclaw."
"Our postboxes still said 'Briefe' in German."
"The sky was turning a darker blue, and I felt safe in the dimming light."
"I decide never to be like David, afraid of himself and devoured by regrets."
"The sun was infinite and light; it felt as if we were flying through it."
"We walked into the sea of pines. Inside it was cooler and darker than in the heat of the sun."
"The forest was all around us, and we were in its center, protected and soothed by this glittering eye."
"It was a sensation of lightness and power and total inconsequence."
"The only sound was that of the tree above us swaying along, its needles rustling and whispering to themselves."
"During these days the shame inside me melted like a mint on my tongue, hardness releasing sweetness."
"The air was the same temperature as our skin, or a little lower, caressing us."
"The world was ours, every moment new and unrepeatable."
"We walked into the forests behind the lake and found berry bushes and small clearings the size of living rooms."
"I floated in the water, and you lay by the shore reading Giovanni's Room."
"The image of my childhood nightmare returned to me, like a challenge from the past."
"The bread is white and already sliced. Over here, all you have to do is chew."
"They're hunting down the opposition, arresting key figures, probably torturing them."
"I know that, eventually, I will need to find someone to trust."
"I tried not to worry and wrote her a letter instead, asking how she was."
"Even when you don't do bad things, bad things can happen to you."
"One day your country is yours, and the next it isn't."
"I swore that I would never become one of them, of those who led their mendacious lives in submission to the system."
"Don't be such a square. Everyone's got to start somewhere."
"It swallows up all your thoughts, all your self-respect."
"I'm just not sure I'll be able to take it for long."
"There are new trees, new children, playing obliviously in between the blocks on layers of invisible footprints and the dust of forgotten lives."
"The fact that I couldn't tell anyone made it all worse."
"We haven't had the same lives. We won't agree on this."
"You never should have seen us. It didn't mean anything. It was a game. It was innocent."
"Everyone is leading someone on. So what's wrong with taking things into your own hands and not letting yourself go under?"
"You need to hold on to what you have. You never know when you'll lose what you hold dearest."
"My heart was beating hard, reminding me of the previous night's narrow escape."
"The city lay before me oddly turned away from the river, oddly calm."
"The calm, I think, was still a form of shock."
"But the whole scheme now seemed more obscene than ever, and yet I told myself that I had to do it."
"I tried to imagine my life in the future, in a year or so. I couldn't see anything."
"She hugged me, this time for longer. 'Come back soon.'"
"There is only so much hatred you can produce, only so much resentment you can hold inside of you."