„Есть пора, когда можно выбирать. Можно делать то или это, жить с тем человеком или с этим. Потом этот человек и его дела становятся частью твоей собственной жизни, а вопрос о том, почему ты продолжаешь жить собственной жизнью, довольно глуп.“ — Бернхард ШлинкВопрос
„Добро без зла столь же несообразно человеческой природе, как и зло без добра.“ — Бернхард ШлинкО природе, О зле
„There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
„Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
„Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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?“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
„When we open ourselvesyou yourself to me and I myself to you,when we submergeyou into me and I into youwhen we vanishinto me you and into you IThenam I meand you are you.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
„Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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?“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, 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.“Help us translate this quote — 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.“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
„We make our own truths and lies…. Truths are often lies and lies truths…“Help us translate this quote — Bernhard Schlink