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Soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.

Things are as they are.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Self-preservation was more important than revenge, and

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

The truth changes all the time.

Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them

The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.

It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.

In a way that starry night sky is a mirror in which we see our own faces.

Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.

impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

One must occasionally stand the world on
its head in order to put it on its feet.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats ... nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.

Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.

An oppressed people will always rise.

We all have our peculiarities," said Wallander.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
always a group of people left over from the old society

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves

The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

You have a good father." She was taken aback.

At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

Pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable.

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace, Lundstr

There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.

There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.

If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.

Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.

What we're in is a vacuum.

Novels are ... an unsurpassed form to understand people.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat
an order he had been delighted to obey.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.

He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He

His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He

A woman would have never been able to live in a house with no pictures of her family,

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.

Fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.

There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music

Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

New ideas are always resisted.

Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.

On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not.

At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

Someone must lead the way.

God allowed no mistakes.

No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.

A question that wasn't asked was a question that didn't need an answer.

Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.

The evil always comes from details.

Not everything can go according to the plan.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

A dead black man - nothing to bother about.

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use.

Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and

There is a silence in empty houses that is unique ... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Under it all was quagmire.

Eliminating someone from an investigation is just as important as getting a positive lead.