The Debt Quotes

  • [first lines]

    Young Stephan: Breathe.

  • [last lines]

    Rachel Singer: My name is Rachel Singer. Please publish what you are about to read. In 1965, I was part of a mission to kidnap Dieter Vogel, The Surgeon of Birkenau, and bring him to Israel to stand trial. We have always claimed that Vogel was killed, trying to escape. But this was a lie. A lie I have lived with for thirty years. And now I understand that I must tell the truth.

  • Young David: Here you are a Mossad agent, all those years of training, the highest levels of marksmanship and krav maga, and your first big mission is sewing.

    Young Rachel: Black belt in dressmaking.

    [brandishing a pin]

    Young David: I never argue with an armed woman.

    Young Rachel: [stabs him with the pin]

  • Doktor Bernhardt: Do it. You want to do it... Do it.

    Young Rachel: [finishes shaving his neck]

    Doktor Bernhardt: That's right. I'd forgotten. You Jews never knew how to kill. Only how to die.

  • Young David: Nobody's ever going to find him again.

  • Stephan Gold: I thought I'd been punished already.

    Rachel Singer: God doesn't plant car bombs.

  • Young David: This isn't medicine. This is sickness. This is disease.

  • Young David: We're not animals. You remember what we are, and you remember what we are not.

  • Stephan Gold: Truth is a luxury, Rachel.

  • Young David: What is it?

    Young Rachel: It doesn't have a name.

    Young Stephan: Shit!

    Young David: Now it does.

  • Young Stephan: [to Rachel] Maybe it's not always a blessing to survive.

Extended Reading
  • Ashleigh 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    If you haven't seen Atonement, this movie is really awesome, but now it's soso. Old Helen always said that for her daughter, the final change is okay. !

  • Luisa 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    This movie is full of human question marks, but it lacks profound scrutiny, too much plot, and too little torture. Facts and lies, reason and emotion, justice and evil have never been one-sided, so people's hearts have become more elusive. 3 and a half stars. Helen Mirren's performance is still quite tense.