Sie hatten Angst vor dem Abschied, und zugleich versetzte sein Bevorstehen sie in eigentümliche Leichtigkeit. Sie waren nicht mehr im gemeinsamen und noch nicht im eigenen Leben, sie waren im Niemandsland.
Bernhard SchlinkBut 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 SchlinkThe truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Bernhard SchlinkI 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 SchlinkTo me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.
Bernhard SchlinkThey waited awhile before lighting the candles; the gloom allowed the past to slip cozily into the present. But the memories were of a time that was gone and didn't overshadow the present. But the memories were vivid, and they made the freinds feel both young and old...When Chrsitanne finally lit the candles and they saw one another clearly again, she was happy to see in the old faces of the others the young faces they had come across in their memories. we store our youth wihtin us, we can go back to it and find ourselves in it, but it is past--melancholy filled their hearsts, and sympahty, for one another and for themsleves.
Bernhard SchlinkTags: youth memories old-friends
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 SchlinkTags: love criminal the-reader bernhard-schlink
Când ne deschidem
tu mie şi eu ţie,
când ne scufundăm
tu în mine şi eu în tine,
când ne pierdem
tu în mine şi eu în tine,
Abia atunci
eu sunt eu
şi tu eşti tu.
Tags: inspirational love poetry romanian-language
Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
Bernhard SchlinkThe value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.
Bernhard SchlinkTags: being-brave value-of-bravery
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