Bernhard Schlink Quotes - Page 2

• We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Lying, Truth And Lies, Lies Truth

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 10, 2010

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• 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

  Book, Law, Lawyer

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.91, Vintage

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• 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

  Beautiful, Memories, Sadness

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Dark, Doe

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.37, Vintage

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• 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

  Thinking, Long, Feeling Sad

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage

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• 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

  Criminals, Guilty, Betray

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage

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• 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 way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Memories, Cities, Way

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Jul 13, 2011

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• ...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.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Niños, Padres, Hecho

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• Cuanto más sufro, más amo.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Suffering, Reader

  "Fictional character: Michael Berg". "The Reader", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Trying, Citizens, Married

  "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Dog, Cat, Play

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.30, Vintage

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• Philosophy has forgotten about children

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Philosophy, Forgotten

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.141, Vintage

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• En el pasado, me había gustado especialmente su olor. Siempre olía a fresco, a recién lavado o a ropa recién lavada o a sudor fresco o a recién amado...

  Bernhard Schlink

  Past, Sweat, Smell

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• It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Running, Risk, Would Be

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.19, Vintage

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• Me cuesta imaginar que me sintiera bien comportándome así. También recuerdo que el más mínimo gesto de afecto me producía un nudo en la garganta, tanto si iba dirigido a mí como a otra persona. A veces bastaba con ver una escena de una película. Esta yuxtaposición de insensibilidad y extrema sensibilidad me parecía sospechosa incluso a mí.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Gestures, Juxtaposition, Affection

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.89, Vintage

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• As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Book, Rights, Illustration

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• 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 was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Children, Clever, Teenager

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.38, Vintage

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• Bravery is good when the cause is good.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Bravery, Causes

  Bernhard Schlink (2008). “Homecoming: A Novel”, p.109, Vintage

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