- Erich Lohkamp: Cinderella is off to the ball
- [looks back to his friends]
- Erich Lohkamp: so long, sisters.
- Patricia Hollmann: You could sit back here.
- Erich Lohkamp: Oh no, I couldn't trust myself next to that dress.
- Erich Lohkamp: I'm going to spill champagne from Hamburg to Munich. Fall in love with every girl I meet. I'm going to live!
- Otto Koster: I'll drink to what I value most. The three of us. To us. Not from day to day now, but year to year.
- Gottfried Lenz: I drink to those who think of home tonight. I drink to the peace they hope to find at home now that peace has come to them at war.