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To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.
— Bernhard Schlink
But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.
— Bernhard Schlink
You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.
— Bernhard Schlink
Everything God does is love -even when we do not understand Him.
— Basilea Schlink
God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.
— Basilea Schlink
Philosophy has forgotten about children
— Bernhard Schlink
Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.
— Bernhard Schlink
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
— Bernhard Schlink
Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.
— Basilea Schlink
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
Berg, Sophia may be a Greek name, but that is no reason for you to study your neighbor in a Greek lesson. Translate!
— Bernhard Schlink
The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.
— Basilea Schlink
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
— Bernhard Schlink
There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
— Bernhard Schlink
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
— Bernhard Schlink
I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.
— Bernhard Schlink
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
The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.
— Bernhard Schlink
When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again. — Bernhard Schlink
I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.
— Bernhard Schlink
The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.
— Bernhard Schlink
Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.
— Basilea 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
It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.
— Bernhard Schlink
Bravery is good when the cause is good.
— Bernhard Schlink
Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.
— Basilea Schlink
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?
— Bernhard Schlink
I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both
— Bernhard Schlink
When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
— Bernhard Schlink
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
— Bernhard Schlink
Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?
— Bernhard Schlink
The more I suffer, the more I love.
— Bernhard Schlink
As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
— Bernhard Schlink
We all condemned our parents to shame, even if the only charge we could bring was that after 1945 they had tolerated the perpetrators in their midst.
— Bernhard Schlink
Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
— Bernhard Schlink
I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.
— Bernhard Schlink
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
— Bernhard Schlink
