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