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1 " Reinhard Messner hatte einmal nach einer Nahtoderfahrung beim Abstieg vom Mount Everest gesagt, der Vorgang des Sterbens wäre das Leichteste. Schwer wäre es nur vorher. Solange man noch Hoffnung besaesse.Waere aber der feste Entschluss zum Sterben getroffen, ginge alles ganz leicht. "
― Sebastian Fitzek , Amokspiel
2 " All of you want to question everything. Is there any more pointless way of wasting away your life than searching for answers that will bring you nothing "
3 " Now he couldn't hear a thing. No breathing. No scraps of sentences. Not even crackling any more. Nothing. And for the first time, he realised that silence can inflict pain in a way that even the loudest of noises cannot "
4 " Sometimes we all have to do things that we don't want to do. Things that hurt others. And which push away the very people we're doing something good for "
5 " To hostage takers, victims were the best forms of insurance. As long as the hostages were still alive, they were like pawns protecting them from attack, a way of buying their way to freedom. For that reason, contrary to the popular opinion perpetrated by TV crime series, it was very rare for hostage situations to have fatal consequences. For the perpetrator, a dead hostage was useless "
6 " The state prosecutor forced a smile, but it didn't extend to his eyes. Ira knew that the difference between an honest smile and the vacant facial expression of an artificial grin lay in the gaze. Faust may have been smiling, but the eyes behind his glasses were ice cold. And that could only mean one thing - that everything he was about to say was a lie "
7 " That's probably the most ridiculous sentence that a man like you could come out with. You always had a choice. You just weren't brave enough to pay the price for your decisions "
8 " Human beings are creatures of habit. Even where suicide is concerned. Ira had discovered that most people, when selecting the method, went for the tools they were most familiar with. Policeman and women knew their way around guns, while doctors and chemists were more familiar with medication. Suicidal individuals who lived near train stations were more likely to jump in front of trains than those who lived by the sea. In turn, seaside dwellers' fear of drowning was less than the psychologically disturbed who had wasted away the last years of their life in anonymous high-rises. Those individuals tended to choose a jump from the roof as their final journey "
9 " We always blame others. Or we blame the circumstances. But in reality there is only one person who can finish us off. Only one person has the power to completely destroy us, if we let them. And that is ourselves "
