- Lise Mueller: I am holding something in my hand, Countess Zora. Does it penetrate your mind?
- Inge Dournenvald: Um... it is a... rather dirty hair pin!
- Hannah Dournenvald: Then Lise's brother Heinz is the boy who tried to kill your mother but succeeded only in breaking my leg.
- Lise Mueller: But it doesn't change the way I feel inside.
- Inge Dournenvald: Well, it changes the way I feel inside!
- Tommi Lowberg: They dehumanize us. They debase us. And they're not going to stop because of a plebescite.
- Inge Dournenvald: I think we both knew then that we would never see each other again. But when I look back at my life, at the people who really mattered, I see Lise. She is still the best friend I ever had.
- Inge Dournenvald: There is a moment every winter when I remember that childhood winter. The winter of the Anschluss. The winter that Hitler invaded our country and took away all that my family and I held dear.
- Inge Dournenvald: What's that song?
- Lise Mueller: I don't know. My brother taught it to me.
- Inge Dournenvald: I like it.
- Lise Mueller: I stood in front of your building all day, waiting for you to go in or out.
- Inge Dournenvald: I'm sorry. I didn't know.
- Lise Mueller: I know.
- Inge Dournenvald: We were at the hospital all day.
- Teacher: Ladies, we are supposed to be exercising our bodies, not our mouths.
- Lise Mueller: [to the teacher] Thanks for the clarification.
- [to Inge]
- Lise Mueller: Exercising doesn't seem to be doing her body much good.
- Hannah Dournenvald: You're not taking anything you don't need, are you?
- Inge Dournenvald: No, Mother. Nothing I don't need.