John Ajvide Lindqvist Quotes

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• That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.
• It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do…
• Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.
• Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
• For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of…
• 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 drugs,…
• They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her…
• But then, it's probably different when you're young.
• 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 the…
• Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the…
• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They…
• -there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that…
• 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 she…
• Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a…
• You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right…
• It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part…

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