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> [“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered foetus. Let a person in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/there-was-no-one-to-be-seen-so-she-gave-in-freely-to-her-sobs-as-she/)

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## More by John Ajvide Lindqvist

> [“A little boy was tugging on his pant leg. 'Teacher, I have to pee.' Avila woke from his skating dreams and looked around, pointed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/a-little-boy-was-tugging-on-his-pant-leg-teacher-i-have-to-pee-avila/)

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> [“Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/revenge-he-said-is-a-human-invention-it-serves-no-purpose/)

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> [This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/this-wasn-t-the-way-he-had-expected-his-life-to-be-it-worked-but-that/)

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> [A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/a-new-life-there-s-not-such-thing-it-was-only-in-the-magazine/)

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> [“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/she-had-felt-a-kind-of-sadness-looking-at-the-spoons-spoons-that-had/)

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> [“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/there-was-no-one-to-be-seen-so-she-gave-in-freely-to-her-sobs-as-she/)

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> [“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/and-that-s-the-bottom-layer-in-old-boxes-melancholy-an-indefinable/)

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> [“Which monster do you choose?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/which-monster-do-you-choose/)

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> [He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/he-had-put-his-hand-up-in-class-a-declaration-of-existence-a-claim/)

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> [“Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/viktor-had-been-very-sad-about-their-grandfather-s-death-but-flora/)

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> [“That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/that-s-what-love-looks-like-it-can-happen-two-people-can-find-one/)

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> [“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions of years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/an-image-suddenly-loomed-in-his-mind-the-greenhouse-effect-yes-the/)

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> [“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her own rapidly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/the-degree-of-satisfaction-and-relief-lessened-each-time-she-opened-a/)

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> [No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/no-one-thought-of-anything-but-themselves-my-happiness-my-future-was/)

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> [What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ajvide-lindqvist/what-he-was-scared-of-was-not-that-maybe-she-was-a-creature-who/)

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