| Quote | One of Lajos's favourite sayings was "Speech is silver, but silence is golden.” Indeed there were many things you kept tight-lipped about. Photographs of you with aristocratic friends from Germany who supported the fascists were torn from albums. Affairs hushed up. Knowledge of dirty dealings taken to the family grave. Relatives who had fallen in love with prostitutes or other men erased from the family tree. Childhood traumas suppressed. What could not be said was written down and then safely preserved. That way you did not have to be constantly carrying secrets around. p. 95 |