Quotes from John Ajvide Lindqvist

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

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 way.

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

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long 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

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, found a new love. But the same life.

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 himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)