Sara

“I see that you think more than you can express. But, if that’s the case, you must also know that you have never fully lived out your thoughts, and that isn’t good. Only the thoughts that we live out have any value. You knew that your ‘permissible world’ was only half the world, and you tried to hide away the second half from yourself, the way clergymen and teachers do. You won’t succeed! No one can do that when he has once begun to think.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“No one ever arrives home,” she said amiably. “But when the paths of friends meet, the whole world looks like home for a while.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

“Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?”
― Bernhard Schlink