There are evil circumstances and environments, not evil per se. But here I sense the actions of a truly darkened mind. Wallander reached for Svedberg’s pocket calendar
The truth changes all the time.
That would never have worked. You can’t be a hired hand for your own father. Especially when he makes all the decisions, and is always right.
Si se diera el caso de un dolor insoportable que no se pudiera paliar, podría pedir que me sedaran. Así abandonaría durmiendo esta vida y este mundo. Prefiero eso que tener que suicidarme. Es algo que...
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
Las posibilidades de elección que tiene una persona permiten también que pueda atreverse a elegir de qué lado quiere estar en una sociedad injusta, que vive en tensión entre los distintos campos de fu...
Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent. p.179He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two pe...
I’m afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increas...
If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.
He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He
He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been worki...
Friendship often develops out of a meeting at which nobody had expected any such miracle to happen. - Kurt Wallander
Desconfío de la gente que dice que nunca tiene miedo. Creo que mienten. No tanto a mí como a sí mismos.
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.
¿No será que hay sentimientos tan fuertes que, sencillamente, no pueden expresarse con palabras, sino que hay que cantarlos?
The remnants of a person’s life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.
Pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable.
Cottage was a cat, staring at him with watchful eyes. He had the impression it was the same cat as he had killed in his fury. He despised the supernatural. Human beings worked constantly to make their...
Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?
What we’re in is a vacuum.