Life After Life

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

‘Love of fate?’
‘It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced,

What is it that it says on the war memorial in the village? For your tomorrow we gave our today.

Perhaps I wanted to fall in love.’
‘And instead you had jolly good sex. Poor you!’

Great beauty transcends all.

What has passed has passed for ever.

You couldn’t necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

The Führer took up so much room in Eva’s life that when he wasn’t here she was an empty vessel.

So much weaponry was staggering – the country was armed to the teeth!