Tuesday, May 3, 2005

bernhard schlink - the reader

"But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible." (p170)

"There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does." (174)

"...when no one understnads you, then no one can call you to account." (198)

"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against ealier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, bt absolutely present and alive." (217)

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