Sophie's Choice Quotes

SS officer You're so ]. I'd like to get you in bed. Are you a polack? You! Are you also one of those filthy ]?

Sophie I am a Pole! I was born in Cracow! I am not a ]. Neither are my ]! They're not Jews. They are racially pure. I am a ]. I am a devout Christian.

SS officer You are not a communist? You are a believer.

Sophie Yes sir, I believe in ].

SS officer You believe in Christ the ]?

Sophie Yes.

SS officer Did He not say... "Suffer the ], come unto me?" You may keep one of your children.

Sophie I beg your pardon?

SS officer You may keep one of your children. The other must go away.

Sophie You mean, I have to ]?

SS officer You are a Polack, not a Yid. That gives you a privilege, a choice.

Sophie My ], she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think — if only I could have got — that meat for my mother it would make her ]. So I go to the country and er... the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the black market money and I bring it back. But it's forbidden, you know, because all the meat goes to the Germans. So I sat on the train and I hid it under my skirt, I am pretending that I am pregnant, you know? Oh I was so afraid. I was shaking. And then the German, was in front of the train and he saw me. So he come over and take under my skirt that ham and... So they sent me ].

Stingo You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham?

Sophie No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was ].

Quotes about Sophie's Choice * ], in his review in The Chicago Sun-Times (1 January 1982)]

Stingo Leslie Lapidus could say fuck, but she could not do it.

Quotes about Sophie's Choice * ], in his

Stingo This was not ] — only ]. Morning: excellent and ].

Nathan You spent the whole fucking afternoon with him, or should I say, you spent the whole afternoon fucking him.

Sophie Mmm. You know, when you... when you live a good life... like a saint... and then you die, that must be what they make you to drink in paradise.

Sophie Stingo, you look... you look very nice, you're wearing your cocksucker.

Stingo That's my "].

Nathan Don't you see, Sophie? We're ].

Stingo Don't you see? We are dying. I longed desperately to escape, to pack my bags and free, but I did not.

Quotes about Sophie's Choice We almost don't notice, at first, as Stingo's odyssey into adulthood is replaced, in the film, by Sophie's journey back into the painful memories of her past. The movie becomes an act of discovery, as the naive young American, his mind filled with notions of ], ], and ], becomes the ] of a ] who has seen so much ], death, and dishonor that the only way she can continue is by blotting out the ], and drinking and loving her way into temporary oblivion. … Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of ], some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of ], they become our friends, and we ] them.

Quotes about Sophie's Choice Sometimes when you've read the novel, it gets in the way of the images on the screen. You keep remembering how you imagined things. That didn't happen with me during Sophie's Choice, because the movie is so ] cast and well-imagined that it just takes over and happens to you. It's quite an ]. … The movie, like the book, is told with two narrators. One is Stingo, who remembers these people from that summer in Brooklyn, and who also remembers himself at that much earlier age. The other narrator, contained within Stingo's story, is Sophie herself, who remembers what happened to her during ], and shares her ] with Stingo in a long confessional. Both the ] and the movie have long central flashbacks, and neither the book nor the movie is damaged by those diversions, because Sophie's ] is so indispensable to Stingo's own ], from an adolescent ] to an ] who can ] to ] ] ].