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...
Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.
Everybody had within himself a secret room, it seemed to him, where memories and recollections were all jumbled up together.
En los países pobres, lo primero que pierden las mujeres es su capacidad de elegir.
Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.
Явно така се става възрастен - правиш и казваш неща, съвършено непонятни за децата.
Who has always
We have to see things simply, but without simplifying. - Rydberg
Vi brukade prata så när vi var unga, Sten och jag. Om döden som något som man skulle hantera som en part i en duell. Även om utgången var given kunde man trötta ut döden så att den bara hade krafter n...
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...
Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.
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...
The desire for revenge can go on indefinitely, said Ekholm. There are no prescribed time limits. It’s one of the oldest truths in criminology that an avenger can wait forever. If these are revenge kil...
The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.
Sometimes parents don’t know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
My grandfather had dominated my childhood out on the island, but my grandmother had been there too, providing the security I didn’t recognise or value until I was an adult.
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...
It was only in the Western world that old people were viewed with indulgence or contemptuous sympathy. In other cultures, age was respected as the period of enlightened wisdom.
I will baptise her, he said. You have walked a long way for something you believe in. In our day that is rare. People seldom walk long distances for their faith. That's why the world looks the way it...