“Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..”Bernhard Schlink book The ReaderSource: The Reader
“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”Bernhard Schlink book The ReaderSource: The Reader
“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”Bernhard Schlink book The ReaderSource: The Reader