"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."

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Bernhard Schlink

#Answers Quotes

“We do three things, three things, friendship with God, friendship with one another, and open friendship for the sake of the world. Here's what we mean when we say fiendship with God: We believe that all of this relationship with God starts with God, with his choice of us. We believe that salvation happens as soon as we say "yes" to God. "God I receive you, I receive your choice" and we respond with our entire lives. Welcome to salvation at that point.”
“Life's too mysterious to take too serious.”
“I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?”
“He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.”
“Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.”
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press
“We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.”
“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”

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