Quotes from Henning Mankell

Greed knows no bounds when it sinks its claws into people. – Rydberg

I admit that I have been surprised during recent times. People I thought might well flee into the shadows have proved to be strong enough to remain in constant touch, while others of whom I expected more have disappeared over the horizon. But I don't pass judgment on anybody. People are who they are. One doesn't need to have many friends -- but one should be able to rely on those one has.

Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund's. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.

I feel as if part of my soul has been replaced by an artificial limb," he wrote. "It still doesn't do what I want it to do.

Luulemme että voimme jarruttaa kehitystä kieltäytymällä näkemästä sitä.

Sometimes, in my darkest moments, I'm afraid it might never again obey me, but I haven't given up hope altogether.

Nobody can ask to have their life declared invalid, and demand that the dice be thrown afresh. There is no going back.

Facing up to cancer is a battle conducted on many fronts. The important thing is not to waste too much strength fighting against one's own illusions. I need all my strength in order to increase my powers of resistance in confronting the enemy that has invaded me.

One has to be able to trust people. Or rather, one has to be able to rely on one's own judgement.

But I've come to terms with the fact that you never escape your parents. The roles are simply reversed. You become your parents' parents. - Lisa Holgersson

At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.

Friendship often develops out of a meeting at which nobody had expected any such miracle to happen. - Kurt Wallander

Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.

We have to see things simply, but without simplifying. - Rydberg

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other on quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

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.

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.

When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was unable to cope with was the new and the unknown; but what I had read before, perhaps on several occasions, had the same effect as ever. I read and was able to stop thinking about my illness.

Il concetto di giustizia non significa solo che le persone che commettono reati vengano condannate. Significa anche non arrendersi mai.

I'm a man who doesn't laugh enough, he thought. Without my noticing, middle age has marooned me on a coast with too many dangerous submerged rocks.

Ihminen voi elää juurettomana. Mutta kuolla ei voi tietämättä, mihin työntää viimeiset ja kaikkein arvokkaimmat juurensa.

There was always somebody at the top who dictated the terms, specifically or by implication, that those below had to accept. - Kurt Wallander

Men are often childish and vain, although they deny it. - Marianne Falk