Sophie’s Choice

Quotes: « Sophie: My mother, 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 strong. 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… » [pause] « Sophie: So they sent me Auschwitz. » « Stingo: You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham? » « Sophie: No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid. » « Narrator: I was twenty two, and a virgin, and was clasping in my arms at last the goddess of my unending fantasies. My lust was inexhaustible. Sophie's lust was both a plunge into carnal oblivion, and a flight from memory and grief. More than that, I now see it was a frantic attempt to beat back death. » « Sophie: [after having taken a sip of the wine that Nathan has poured for her] 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. »