Best Bernhard Schlink Quotes
- It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the… Accompanying
- We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths... Inspirational
- Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that… All
- I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers. Answers
- People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the… Commit
- Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know. Always Better
- Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not… Actual
- What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… Accepting
- why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Beautiful
- But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs,… Awkward
- I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there… Achieved
- So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of… Betray
- Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. Desire
- When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we… Funny
- She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made… Advances
- As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book. Author
- I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do… Happy