“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her own rapidly thinning blood. Towards morning she was a whimpering mass of abstinence and anguish. Anguish because she… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“A broom that was almost never used was leaned up against the wall. He took it and started to sweep. Dust flew up his nose. When he had been sweeping for a while he realised he had no dustpan. He… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“A little boy was tugging on his pant leg. 'Teacher, I have to pee.' Avila woke from his skating dreams and looked around, pointed to some trees by the shore that grew out over the water; the bare network of branches fell like a shielding curtain toward the ice. 'You can pee there.' The boy squinted at the trees. 'On… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share
“Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.” — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
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… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
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… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty years without… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“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 and he hurts you. There was a reason why she kept her relationships brief. Don't let them in. Once they're… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share
“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… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“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… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“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… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions of years… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
