Henning Mankell Quotes

We all have our peculiarities, said Wallander.

We can never make sense of death,’ I said. ‘It doesn’t obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other on quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

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

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

You can’t live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to.

You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.

Call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It’s the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I’m trying to win mon...

Slowly peel away all the extraneous layers. There are tracks and marks left at every crime scene, like shadows of the event itself. That’s what you have to find.

Who has always

Ако ми се беше развикала, щях да си плюя на петите - помисли си Юел. - Но как да избягам от жена, която изглежда толкова тъжна?

Погледна ръчния си часовник. Времето ли отминаваше или животът му?

Para millones de personas del planeta es un lujo inaccesible poder sacar tiempo para pensar.

A dead black man—nothing to bother about.

A few minutes later he returned, shaking his head. It must have been Björk’s private map, he said. I couldn’t find it. Call the bookseller and wake him up, said Wallander. I want a map here now. Are y...

A life is a constant quest how to achieve the best result.

But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

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

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

History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.