“To anyone ignorant of history, it would be easy to see ways of life in earlier times simply as ways of life… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“There are matters one simply cannot get drawn into, that one must distance oneself from, if the price is not life and… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do.… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives.… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers. — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“We did not have a world that we shared; she gave me the space in her life that she wanted me to… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi situaciju, a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“...if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of guilt return;… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“To anyone ignorant of history, it would be easy to see ways of life in earlier times simply as ways of life in foreign… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I am.' She… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“I had no one to point at. Certainly not my parents, because I had nothing to accuse them of. The zeal for letting in… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk,… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
