129 Quotes by Bernhard 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.

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

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

Ich schreibe aus demselben Grund, aus dem andere lesen: Man will nicht nur ein Leben leben.

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.

The truth of what one says lies in what one does.

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.

Philosophy has forgotten about children.