"...I had to point at Hanna. But the……" — Bernhard Schlink
"...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents."
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Bernhard Schlink
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42 Quotes by Bernhard Schlink
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