If Wolfgang were here, he would try to save the bird, but of course he wouldn’t know how to handle this situation any better than I do. We just have to wait, the mother bird will come back eventually. She has to come. I wish it with all my might.
-- Narration

Importance: This quote encapsulates Anna’s reliance on waiting and wishing in place of action. She projects competence onto Wolfgang and then immediately removes it, concluding that not intervening is the only possible response. Her certainty that the mother bird will return mirrors her broader conviction that outcomes are fixed, allowing her to feel concern and responsibility while avoiding intervention.

The loneliness and peace of my room, the view of the garden, the tenderness that filled me at the sight of Wolfgang, was I supposed to put everything– and for me it is everything– at risk for the sake of...
-- Narration