Oskar Schell – Character Quotes

— Why do you find it so hard to talk to me?
— In case you haven't noticed, half the time, you're asleep. And the other half the time, you forget the first half. You're what they call in the law
"in abstentia". An absent parent.

— But if you don't tell me, how can I ever be right'?
— Well, another way of looking at it is... how can you ever be wrong?