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…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“She had felt a kind of sadness, looking at the spoons. Spoons that had been lying in their case for perhaps sixty…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Which monster do you choose?”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous,…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“In the lift up to Larry's apartment on the sixth floor he [Lacke] started to cry. Not quietly, no; he wailed like…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Which circle did Dante himself go to after death...”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“He couldn't have pulled back the lock, they couldn't simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Sorry I broke your music machine.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Children. There was no particular gurney for children and few things made Benke feel as uncomfortable as seeing the empty spaces left…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“A broom that was almost never used was leaned up against the wall. He took it and started to sweep. Dust flew…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist