Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
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...
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...
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.
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...
There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.
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.
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
Sometimes parents don’t know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
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...
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.
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.
Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund
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...
I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.You should have said the Doctor everybody should.
Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander
En los relatos de los otros nos vemos a nosotros mismos. Toda obra de arte sincera contiene un fragmento pequeñísimo de un espejo.