Bernhard Schlink citáty

“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“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 just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“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 vanish
into me you and into you I

Then
am I me
and you are you.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“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, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“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 experiences of life.”

Bernhard Schlink

“Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“We make our own truths and lies…. Truths are often lies and lies truths…”

Bernhard Schlink

“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 having loved a criminal.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“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 up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader

“I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.”

Bernhard Schlink kniha The Reader