“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
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.”Bernhard Schlink book The ReaderSource: The Reader