1# _Gattaca_ and _Stasiland_ quotes 2 3### Character list 4 5**Miriam** - married to Charlie. Tortured, escaped and rebelled as teenager. 6**Julia** - Anna's roommate. Raped & imprisoned. 7**Charlie** - dead husband of Miriam 8**Hagen Koch** - wall cartographer. rebels against regime because Stasi attempted to end marriage. 9**Herr Bohnsack** - former Stasi informant 10**Klaus** - singer 11**Frau Paul** - mother of Torsten who was taken away from her 12**Herr Boch** - former Stasi professor, recruits informants 13 14## Oppression & discrimination 15 16[g] "never suffered from the discrimination of a 'utero'" 17[g] society looks "so hard for any flaw that after a while that's all you see" 18[g] "I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands" 19[g] "I was never meant for this world" 20[g] "everything he needed to get into Gattaca.. except the will to do so" 21[s] "we are here to inform you today, that you don't exist any more" - re Miriam 22[s] "in this country, any kind of printing is forbidden" - Koch 23[s] "there is not unemployment in the GDR" - employment officer to Julia 24[s] "I inhabit the grey end of the spectrum" - Miriam 25[s] "a choreography of very nasty scouts" re. Stasi informants 26[g] "I lent you my body, you lent me your dream" 27 28## Rebellion 29 30[s] "instead of shooting cardboard figures we'd have to shoot our own peope" - Herr Bohnsack 31[s] "I thought it was something we had to do because they were robbing us blind" - Koch, p.170 32[s] "by 1961, about 2000 people were leaving the East each day" 33[s] "if there's no way aroundn it, we just have to crash through somehow" 34[s] "I have to leave here forever - I have to leave my family, and I will not see my sisters again, and I have to go to the West" 35[s] "I have always had an acute sense of duty to obey the law" - Koch 36 37## Suffering 38 39[s] "they break you.. just like fiction" - Miriam 40[s] "I will do whatever you ask... but that plate stays there" - Koch 41[s] "I went to see him that time, and of course I wanted more" - Frau Paul, re Torsten 42[s] "she told himt o go to hell and found a smallish funeral establishment" - Miriam 43[s] "they really made sure that I didn't sleep" - Miriam 44[s] "I was basically no longer human" - Miriam 45[s] "I think I am definitely psychologically damaged" - Miriam 46[g] "a child conceinved in love has a better chance of happiness" 47[g] "I'd need an awful lot more than a drop if I was going to get anywhere" - Vincent re blood brothers