The Woman on the Stairs Quotes

“There was nothing I couldn’t do without, nothing others couldn’t do without me.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Woman on the Stairs

“she liked to say that the opposite of good is not evil, but good intentions. But the opposite of evil is not evil intentions, but good.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Woman on the Stairs

“Do you ever wonder whether God envies our happiness, and has to destroy it?”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Woman on the Stairs

“Dass man, wenn man sehr müde ist, sagt, man sei todmüde, fiel mir ein, und dass man, wenn man todmüde ist, doch voller Leben ist, und wenn man lebensmüde ist, schon dem Tod nahe.”
― Bernhard Schlink, Die Frau auf der Treppe