73 Quotes by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Please, dear God. Let her come back. You can have whatever you like. All my magazines, all my books, my things. Whatever you want. But just make it so she comes back. To me. Please, please God.

Just as the moon brought out the wolf in a werewolf, so alcohol brought this creature out of his dad.

A lot of screams for so little wool, said the man who sheared the pig.

A graveyard could be so densely populated and yet it was the loneliest place on earth.

That’s how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy. That’s how you should be.

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 fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear.

No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references, or used in advertising.

There was something vaguely menacing about the way the two children were moving behind the smiling, unsuspecting family. Like predators.

Let the old dreams die. We have new ones.