- Jonas Kahnwald (Future): We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.
- Charlotte Doppler 1986: What are you doing here?
- Jonas Kahnwald: Bringing someone back from the dead.
- Charlotte Doppler 1986: How does that work?
- Jonas Kahnwald: It's very hard to explain.
- Charlotte Doppler 1986: [looking at the dead birds] Can you bring these back?
- Jonas Kahnwald: No, you have to find them when they're younger.
- Charlotte Doppler 1986: But then, they're not dead yet.
- Jonas Kahnwald: That doesn't change the fact that they will die.
- Charlotte Doppler 1986: You're crazy.
- Jonas Kahnwald: Maybe.
- Jonas Kahnwald: You could have saves Mikkel! Now I have another grandma and she's the principal of my school. Her husband, who's fucking my mom, is looking for his son, who's my father!
- (2017): Most people are nothing but pawns on a chessboard. Led by an unknown hand. Their lives exist only to be sacrificed for a higher goal. Jonas, Mikkel, the children, they're nothing but unfortunate, yet necessary chess moves in an eternal war between good and evil.
- H.G. Tannhaus 1986: Will you tell me what the future's like?
- The Stranger: I'm hoping that by tomorrow, it'll already be different from today.
- The Stranger: We're not free in what we do, because we're not free in what we want. We can't overcome what's deep within us.
- Helge Doppler 1986: If there is no God, then why do we believe in a lie?
- Noah: Because we prefer any lie to the pain.