“Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing- then why not the satisfaction and the act itself? As the days went on, I discovered that I couldn't stop thinking sinful thoughts. In which case I also wanted the sin itself.” DesireSin Author:Bernhard Schlink
“I could never stop comparing the way it was with Gertrud and the way it had been with Hanna; again and again, Gertrud and I would hold each other, and I would feel that something was wrong, that she was wrong, that she moved wrong and felt wrong, smelled wrong and tasted wrong. I thought I would get over it. I hoped it would go away. I wanted to be free of Hanna. But I never got over the feeling that something was wrong.” LoveDesirePassionLonging Author:Bernhard Schlink
“Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.” FormDesirePassionLosesMemoriesLabyrinth Book:The Reader Source: The Reader
