Soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.
You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.
You can’t live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to.
When one historical period is replaced by another, there isalways a group of people left over from the old society
What doesn’t exist you have to create yourself. Even a dream can be plucked out of your head and shaped for a purpose.
We can never make sense of death,’ I said. ‘It doesn’t obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist.
The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.
Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.
Siempre me reafirmaba en la idea de que el ser humano es un ser narrante. Más Homo narrans que Homo sapiens.
La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est qu'on a de la place pour les jambes.
I’m too old for talks. I gave that up when I turned sixty. I’d done enough talking in my life by then. Nowadays I neither speak nor listen to what anybody else has to say.
He always put off the most important matters affecting his own life. When he was at work, on the other hand, he insisted on arguing for precisely the opposite approach. Always do the most important th...
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
Even so. The papers will be screaming about the fact that the murderer was a cop. There will be new persecution of the force.
En los tiempos en que vivimos, la memoria es más corta si cabe que en ninguna época anterior de la historia del hombre. Nos inundan todo el rato con una lluvia torrencial de información, pero lo sabem...
Do you know what the wind tastes like? […] Mysterious spices […] that tell us about people and events far away. That we can’t see. But that we can sense if we draw the wind deep into our mouths and th...
Dans mon enfance, la Suède était un pays où les gens reprisaient encore leurs chaussettes. J'ai même appris à le faire. Puis soudain, un jour, c'était fini. On a commencer à jeter les chaussettes trou...
Coger un libro y perderme en el texto en los momentos difíciles ha sido siempre mi modo de buscar alivio, consuelo o, al menos, un respiro. Cuando los asuntos amorosos se torcían, echaba mano de un li...
But dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.