Expected Quote 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…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

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

— 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 or taking…

— 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 years without…

— 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 her arms…

— 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 to the…

— 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 to him.…

— 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 than the…

— 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, incomprehensible third…

— 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 of years…

— 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 own rapidly…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist