Snow White Must Die Quotes
"It was high time he looked life straight in the eye."
"Happiness was not the same thing as this feeling of strangeness, of uncertainty."
"No one had swept up the fallen leaves from the chestnut tree."
"He couldn’t possibly leave his father all alone in this mess."
"She had realized her ambitious dream to leave behind the village."
"How foolish he had been to think that he was the only one being punished by life!"
"Nobody wanted to eat dinner or celebrate a special occasion at an establishment run by the parents of a double murderer."
"To this day he hadn’t told anyone what he did with their bodies."
"He remembered every detail of those last days before his arrest as if it had all happened yesterday."
"I’m really in a jam," he admitted. "And I need your advice."
"He couldn’t reproach his father, because he was the one to blame for the regrettable situation into which his parents had fallen."
"She absolutely had to find out more about the girl that Thies had called Snow White."
"How could everyone stick up for that shithead?"
"She had lain awake half the night thinking about Tobias Sartorius and the murdered girls."
"He remembered quite clearly the sixth of September 1997."
"It was so quiet that he could hear his heart beating."
"Deep inside a battle was raging between pride and common sense."
"And now he, the convicted murderer of two girls, had to step back into this fog after serving his sentence."
"The situation has become untenable now that he is here again, and I have asked you here today so that we can decide what to do about it."
"Just when grass was beginning to grow over the whole episode."
"You slave away until you're sixty-five, then step right into the coffin."
"White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony."
"I have no intention of letting this matter rest."
"It's obvious that a sloppy investigation was done at the time, and the conclusions were totally arbitrary."
"Would you want to know the truth if you suspected you were being cheated on?"
"It was actually just as depressing as the Sartorius place."
"No one would have believed Tobias was capable of such a thing, and I didn't either at first. But you can't tell what's going on in a person's head by looking them in the face, can you?"
"It wasn't right, what they had done. Absolutely not right."
"I refuse to let that topic get to me anymore. Otherwise our whole life here would have fallen apart long ago."
"The memories came rushing back over me. I thought about Rita, I know her well. I only wanted to talk to her so that she'd make sure that son of hers got out of town."
"We don't have any money. Tobias won't be able to find a job any time soon. Who's going to hire an ex-con, even if he has a diploma?"
"I've stopped thinking about all that. It's hard enough to keep going with the entire village watching."
"I can't afford to live in the past the way my husband does."
"Maybe your son should leave Altenhain for a while. At least until after the girl is buried, when feelings here have died down a bit."
"To the people here he's a murderer and that's what he'll always be."
"Amelie is only seventeen. She's like a little sister."
"All right, then be careful that you don’t turn little sister’s head with those blue eyes of yours."
"I don’t think you have the slightest idea what sort of effect you have on women, do you?"
"Amelie is also firmly convinced that somebody saw something back then that might exonerate me."
"But why didn’t that person ever say anything?"
"In any case, Amelie must have found out something."
"I couldn’t protect Snow White, but I’ll take better care of you."
"You have no idea what I’ve been through for the past eleven years!"
"I’m afraid for you, Tobi. I don’t want to lose you again, now that I finally have you back."
"She has not only lost a child, but also a husband, who goes out every night drinking out of sheer self-pity, leaving her in the lurch."
"We were a happy family. We’d just built a house out in the new industrial park, and my cabinet shop was doing well."
"I’m not saying another word without a lawyer present."
"Do you guys remember how my sister stole my old man’s key ring and we raced around inside the old airplane hangar?"
"I didn’t do anything to Amelie. I swear. I didn’t do anything, do anything."
"I can’t talk about it, or else they’ll put me in a home. And I’ll have to stay there till I die."
"Snow White must die. That’s what they said. But nobody can do anything to her anymore. I’m watching out for her."
"That’s right. What if Lars killed Stefanie and his brother saw it?"
"Maybe that was how Claudius Terlinden kept his son out of the investigation. And then he threatened his other son so that he would keep his mouth shut."
"But what did Thies mean when he said that nobody could do anything to Snow White anymore because he would take care of her?"
"Sometimes I care more about the fate of others than is good for me."
"I’ve always tried to make excuses for my sister."
"This morning I finally realized that having family ties to someone doesn’t mean you have to defend their actions."
"I used to think there was something wrong with her. All that exaggerated concern for everyone."
"I’ll never in my life forget the expression on his face."
"I’ve always secretly feared that one day things would end in disaster, but I never expected anything like this."
"She refused to believe me when I phoned her at once to tell her what I’d seen."
"As soon as my brother-in-law comes home, he’ll undoubtedly throw me out."
"That’s how it will be forever and ever, just you and me."
"Only organic produce from their own fields that they had grown themselves was sold."
"I never should have let Terlinden talk me into moving to Altenhain."
"We had agreed that Terlinden would not change the structure of the company and would keep all the employees on."
"We did everything we could to search for Stefanie, got involved with various organizations, the radio, the TV."
"He will literally trample on corpses to get whatever he wants."
"Twenty-five years of marriage can’t be swept away so easily."
"I hope you don’t believe everything he tells you."
"If I can’t have him, nobody else will either."
"I’ve received anonymous letters and e-mails."
"You can’t arrest my boy, he didn’t do anything."
"He suddenly had a gun in his hand and he shot himself in the head!"
"Everything was fine, but then Jörg just had to tell somebody what happened back then!"
"That stupid little bitch stuck her nose into things that are none of her fucking business."
"I wanted to prevent Tobias from being hurt again."
"You did hurt me! More than any person ever has!"
"I thought you’d react like this. Self-righteous and uncompromising."
"I would regret it to the end of my days if I don’t make this film."
"You’ve lied to me and betrayed me. I’ll never be able to trust you again."
"You don't understand the situation," he replied wearily as he averted his eyes.
"People aren't chess pieces," Pia replied sharply.
"Everything was fine." He rubbed his eyes. "Nothing would have happened if everyone had played by the rules."
"Getting old was no picnic—what nonsense to think otherwise."
"At Elvira’s age, he had wasted no thoughts on the old men who sat shivering with aching bones in their easy chairs."
"Now he, too, was one of those old fossils, a remnant of the dim past, whose friends, acquaintances, and companions had long since left him behind."
"He could hardly comprehend how time had caught up with him."
"Now I’m going to need glasses soon," he muttered, stepping harder on the gas so he wouldn’t lose Terlinden.
"The sound of the doorbell tore him out of his reverie."
"Even though he knew that she would be arguing with him, he still looked forward to seeing her."
"That’s got to be at least two thousand calories," she said, wrinkling her nose."
""Now you see what sacrifices we make for our children’s sake," he replied."
""Dead bodies should be banned on weekends," Cosima murmured with a big yawn."
"The fatal bullet had entered the back of his head, and the small dark hole seemed remarkably inconspicuous."
""I’m waiting for your query about the time of death," Bodenstein replied drily."
""Everyone is replaceable" was wrong. No one was easily replaced."
"Vera had always succeeded in circumventing dangerous precipices in her life with farsightedness and courage."