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„Menschen sterben an gebrochenem Herzen. Sie bekommen Herzinfarkte. Und es ist das Herz, das am meisten wehtut, wenn etwas schief geht und auseinander fällt.“

„Woher weiß man, ob etwas lebendig ist?
Man schaut nach, ob es atmet.“

„So ein Typ war er. Ruben Wolf. Wenn er am Leben war, war er okay.“

„Und es sollte mir einmal mehr beweisen, dass eine Gelegenheit geradewegs zu einer anderen führt, genauso wie ein Risiko ein weiteres nach sich zieht, ein Leben ein anderes und ein Tod den nächsten.“

„Y ese beso, Saumensch?“

„Hals und Beinbruch, Saukerl.“

„‎"Und seid versichert, diese Frau hatte tatsächlich ein Herz, und zwar ein größeres, als die meisten Leute vermutet hätten. Da war eine Menge drin, aufgestapelt, meterhoch auf verborgenen Regalen.“

„Die Noten wurden in ihrem Atem geboren und starben auf ihren Lippen.“

„Sergeant Stephan Schneider“

„Ich…" Er kämpfte mit der Antwort. "Als alles still war, bin ich hinaufgegangen, und im Flur habe ich gesehen, dass der Vorhang im Wohnzimmer einen Spalt offen stand… ich konnte nach draußen sehen. Ich habe nur ein paar Sekunden lang hingeschaut."
Er hatte die Welt da draußen seit zweiundzwanzig Monaten nicht mehr gesehen.
Keine Wut. Kein Tadel.
Papa stellte eine Frage.
"Wie hat es ausgesehen?"
Max hob den Kopf. In seinem Blick standen Trauer und Erstaunen.
"Da waren Sterne", sagte er. "Sie haben meine Augen verbrannt.“

„Sie verabschiedete sich und wusste es nicht einmal.“

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.”

“The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is
like a yellow hole…”

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”

“The day was gray, the color of Europe.”

“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

“So many humans.
So many colors.”

“I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.”

“We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.”

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”

“… to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.”

“It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.”

“The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.”

“Competence was attractive.”

“… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”

“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

“Why me?' I ask God.
God says nothing.
I laugh and the stars watch.
It's good to be alive.”

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

“The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.”

“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all. He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”

“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”

“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“He killed himself for wanting to live.”

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

“First the colours.
Then the humans.
That’s usually how I see things.
Or at least, how I try.”

“Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't want to hear it, either.”