Abel Tannatek Quotes

#1. 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

#2. All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again.

Antonia Michaelis

#4. But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear.

Carsten Jensen

#5. 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

#6. She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ... '
'That's silly!' Micha giggled.
'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!

Antonia Michaelis

#7. I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.

Gigi Hadid

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. When people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward.

Veronica Roth

#13. Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

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. My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Etgar Keret

#17. 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

#18. Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

Daniel H. Pink

#19. I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work.

Jessica Simpson

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

Antonia Michaelis

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

Madame De Stael

#25. The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.

Antonia Michaelis

#26. All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

#27. Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!

Antonia Michaelis

#28. I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

Caitriona Balfe