Anna Leemann Quotes

#1. You didn't see us," she said to Anna ...
"I was ... lost in thought," Anna replied.
"What were you thinking about?"
"You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.

Antonia Michaelis

#2. 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

#3. She didn't know if this excitement was fueled by her ambition to find out something that nobody else knew. Or by the anticipation of finding out.

Antonia Michaelis

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Antonia Michaelis

#8. Adults were always quick to tell her how much she looked like her mother, and how little like her father. Though Anna thought that on the inside she was much more like him. There was this strong, unbreakable will in her to fight for something, somwhere. But where? for what? and against whom?

Antonia Michaelis

#9. Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

Gary Shteyngart

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The price of greatness is responsibilty.

Winston Churchill James

#13. Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Vironika Tugaleva

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. But this was the first time someone he loved would be gone forever. He didn't like to think about the forever part. But when he did, which was often, the only place he wanted to be was home.

Kevin Henkes

#17. Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

Ted Sizer

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

Antonia Michaelis

#19. I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.

Antonia Michaelis

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

Elbridge Gerry