Quotes About Leemann

#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. A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

Per Petterson

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Give while your hands are warm

Benjamin H. Berkley

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

Antonia Michaelis

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. It's good she hooked up with me, she's such a nut, she needs a badass to take her back.

Kristen Ashley

#13. 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

#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. The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Edward Abbey

#16. 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

#17. Intimacy with God is what determines our exploits

Sunday Adelaja

#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