73 Quotes by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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 happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.

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 anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.

Reportern hade funnit sig i den ljusa världen och alltså var det meningslöst att prata med honom. Det fanns inga ord.

Kära vän, alla ljuger på nåt sätt. Det är en förutsättning för att samhället ska hålla ihop. Att vi ljuger lite grann. Man kan se det som en form av hänsyn. Sanningen är på sätt och vis väldigt egoistisk.

Hon hade fått Gamecuben av Elvy på sin femtonde födelsedag. Det hade varit hetsiga diskussioner med Margareta, som hävdade att tevespelen gjorde att ungdomarna avskärmade sig från omvärlden, stängde av. Elvy trodde att hon hade rätt, och det var just därför hon köpt spelet.

Mieux vaut se prendre une bite dans le trou de balle que de se faire trouer la peau par une balle.

Elvy whispered, "Holy Virgin..." and did not dare to look. Because suddenly she understood what it meant, _tribulation, such was not since the beginning of the world_. It was what could be read in Mary's eyes. The suffering of a mother confronted with her dead child--and that child the sum of all goodness. Not simply the pain of watchin the child that you have nursed and cherished be tortured and executed, but the suffering, too, that there is a world in which such things happen.

That’s how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that’s what people today are incapable of.