Abel And Anna Quotes

#1. I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

Amanda Beard

#2. Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

Jill Scott

#3. Who shall contend with time,
unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

Henry Kirke White

#4. Anna, he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name. As if he'd just called to make sure she existed.

Antonia Michaelis

#5. He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, You know these aren't very good for Pretty Town.

Amy A. Bartol

#6. That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit his target.
When she fell into darkness, she knew that she would never see him again.
She'd love him to the very end.

Antonia Michaelis

#7. He looked at the gun. "Aren't you afraid?"
"Of course I am," Anna said. "Of course I'm afraid. But that doesn't help."
He shook his head. "No," he said, "it doesn't help to be afraid. Bad things happen anyway. You're right.

Antonia Michaelis

#8. And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter ... it fell softly ... softly ... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.

Antonia Michaelis

#9. Next to that dragon Micha had wirtten: 'KIS EacH OthER'.
Abel looked at Anna. Anna looked at Abel.
'She is the little queen,' said Abel, 'in our fairy tale, at least.'
'One must obey the queen,' said Anna.

Antonia Michaelis

#10. Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.'
'Do I have to eat them?'
'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said.

Antonia Michaelis

#11. In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord.

Antonia Michaelis

#12. Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue.

Antonia Michaelis

#13. Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

John Henry Newman

#14. What does that mean?' Anna whispered. 'What does that all mean?
Abel ran his fingers through her hair again, and his hand wandered down and stayed on her throat. 'It means everything,' he whispered back. 'And nothing.

Antonia Michaelis

#15. I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.

Antonia Michaelis

#16. The world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.

Antonia Michaelis

#18. They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.

Antonia Michaelis

#19. In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

Konstantin Stanislavski

#20. Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him ... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending.

Antonia Michaelis

#21. The word 'escape' was suggestive

Aldous Huxley

#22. Part of her - unreasonable Anna- still loved him. Maybe she would never stop loving him.

Antonia Michaelis

#23. I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

David Millar

#24. The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.
The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

Antonia Michaelis

#25. The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.

Antonia Michaelis

#26. When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#27. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Roman Payne

#28. It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. Remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.
(Book-Love Vs Destiny)

Atul Purohit