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.
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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…
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Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.
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Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
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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…
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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 drugs,…
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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…
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But then, it's probably different when you're young.
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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 the…
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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…
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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. They…
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-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…
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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 she…
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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…
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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…
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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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