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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7631600 | Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and | Henning Mankell | ||
| 78f3964 | there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 99c7c43 | the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 633f468 | It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control. | Henning Mankell | ||
| fb8158c | Le gusta esa idea. Es una idea que nunca compartira con nadie. Es una idea que hace que el sea el y no otro. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 1f9df51 | soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society. | Henning Mankell | ||
| fabc25b | At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he | Henning Mankell | ||
| 70406bf | Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e810cc0 | self-preservation was more important than revenge, and | Henning Mankell | ||
| 45803f0 | 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. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 4724aca | Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 3c9c3a3 | His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He | Henning Mankell | ||
| 64a4ced | Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr" | Henning Mankell | ||
| 718fda3 | We all have our peculiarities," said Wallander." | Henning Mankell | ||
| 71f7c19 | pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 184b0e8 | I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls. | Henning Mankell | ||
| ac9a9be | More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He | Henning Mankell | ||
| 156f7db | What we're in is a vacuum. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 37072c6 | Even as a ten-year-old, the incident made it clear to me that people are never completely what we believe they are. Including me. There is always something unexpected within those we meet, those we think we have got to know. | Henning Mankell | ||
| d47f9d0 | Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 22a3826 | La volonta di vivere. Quella forza che ti fa alzare dal letto ogni mattina quando fa giorno. Tutto puo essere sostituito. Ma non questo. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 95750ba | At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 0b2bc9c | De repente noto que la vieja confianza que los unia cuando eran ninos habia desaparecido. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 6314c67 | fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 091fca8 | It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards. | henning-mankell refugees the-shadow-girls | Henning Mankell | |
| e563abb | 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." | loneliness | Henning Mankell | |
| e73a857 | 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 | Henning Mankell | ||
| 8629270 | Traviata, | Henning Mankell | ||
| cd9a8cd | 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 increasing frequency the older I get. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 8052b17 | 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. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c811285 | We're not allowed to learn to die,' Jansson said. 'What do you mean?' 'In the past death was a part of life. Now it's completely separate. I remember I was six years old when my grandmother died. Her body lay on a door in the parlour at home. There was nothing odd about that. Death was a natural part of our lives. Not any more. We no longer learn to die in this country. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 4a72b07 | The westerly wind whines sharp, wild gees cry in the sky, the frosty morning's moon. Frosty the morning's moon, Horses' hooves clatter hard, Stifled the sound of the trumpet. Mao Zedong, 1935 | mao-zedong | Henning Mankell | |
| fe56202 | Growing older is like walking on thinner and thinner ice. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a477ffe | The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to prevent its progress. | time time-passing time-quote | Henning Mankell | |
| 9c7cf84 | Ya Ru's father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion. | china-sorrows henning-mankell mao-zedong maoist-china | Henning Mankell | |
| 678f58d | The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past. | henning-mankell past-and-present past-quotes | Henning Mankell | |
| 5f4cee3 | I was enticed like a fly to a pot of honey by something reminiscent of a religious cult offering salvation. We were not urged to commit collective suicide, because the Day of Judgment was nigh, but to give up our individuality for the benefit of a collective intoxication, at the heart of which was a Little Red Book that had replaced all other forms of enlightenment. It contained all wisdom, the answers to all questions, expressions of all t.. | henning-mankell maoism political-metaphor revolutionary | Henning Mankell | |
| 0f21056 | He always put off the most important matters affecting his own life. When he was at work, on the other hand, he insisted on arguing for precisely the opposite approach. Always do the most important things first. He had a split personality. | Henning Mankell | ||
| f0f26b1 | Life tosses us all hither and thither. Is there anything we can truly decide for ourselves? | Henning Mankell | ||
| 9f0891b | I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 5bbf766 | Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts to manage his life. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 9ceea2a | 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 gods unnecessary. | Henning Mankell | ||
| cad8491 | Everybody had within himself a secret room, it seemed to him, where memories and recollections were all jumbled up together. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 90bd268 | 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. | Henning Mankell |