In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat… — 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… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren’t therapy. What do you think these places… — 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… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“They waited awhile before lighting the candles; the gloom allowed the past to slip cozily into the present. But the memories were… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in… — 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
