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...
Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson
Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
At that age, they’re as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.
Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
Valor y miedo van siempre de la mano. Hace falta valor para vivir y valor para morir.
Tutte le domande continuano a rimanere senza risposta, pensò. Passo la mia vita a cercare di assicurare alla giustizia dei criminali che hanno commesso una serie di reati. Ogni tanto ci riesco, ma il...
Fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.
There’s no such thing as a murderer’s face, he said. You imagine something: a profile, a hairline, a set of the jaw. But it never matches up.
¿No será que hay sentimientos tan fuertes que, sencillamente, no pueden expresarse con palabras, sino que hay que cantarlos?
I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.
Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.
Явно така се става възрастен - правиш и казваш неща, съвършено непонятни за децата.
Sometimes parents don’t know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.
Desconfío de la gente que dice que nunca tiene miedo. Creo que mienten. No tanto a mí como a sí mismos.
There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of really old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies...
En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.
People have faces. […] Spirits don’t have faces. And yet we recognise them. We know who is who. Spirits don’t have eyes or mouths or ears either. And yet they can see and speak and hear. […] The spiri...
Theexperience he'd gained during his years in the police forcehad given him this unambiguous answer: there are nomurderers. Only ordinary people who commit murder
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