“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“At first I wanted to write our story in order to be free of it. But the memories wouldn’t come back for… — 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
