Quotes from Henning Mankell

Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.

La barbarie ha sempre dei connotati umani, pensò. È questo che rende la barbarie così disumana. L'aveva letto da qualche parte.

He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A

Linda grabbed an ashtray from the table and threw it at him, hitting him right above the eyebrow. Blood ran down his face and dripped on Harriet Bolson's file.

Después de tantos años como político había comprendido que lo único que quedaba era la mentira. La verdad disfrazada de mentira o la mentira encubierta de verdad.

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.

Martinsson was at the other side of the table, watching him. 'He knows exactly what's going on inside my head at the moment,' Wallander thought, 'and he agrees with me, whether I speak up now or hold my tongue.

Luulen että juuri se teki minusta aikuisen, se oivallus että raakuus on yhdistettävissä nauruun.

It's about contradictions between us and inside us, between individuals and society, between dream and reality. Sometimes these contradictions express themselves in violence, such as racial conflict. And this mirror of crime can take us back to the Greek authors.

Hän oli kysynyt hintaani. En ollut vastannut, koska ihmisellä ei voi olla hintaa.

I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too.

Träume können ihren Wert haben, selbst wenn man sie nicht verwirklichen kann.

Ihminen voi olla kuollut, vaikka elää, ja olla elossa, vaikka onkin kuollut.

Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander

Every time Wallander stepped into a strange apartment, he felt as though he were looking at the covers of a book he had just bought. The apartment, the furniture, the pictures on the walls, and the smells were the title. Now he had to start reading.

Qué poco sabemos de nuestros vecinos», pensó.

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

I thought it went without saying that when the Soviet Union collapsed and the eastern states opened up, we would be plagued by a new kind of criminality in Sweden and Western Europe. And that is what happened.

It is as if families on the run are shattered by something other than just grenades. The flight and fear tears us apart and those parts land in all kinds of places - we don't even know where. But we always try to find them afterwards.

Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts to manage his life.

Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund

Eliminating someone from an investigation is just as important as getting a positive lead.

Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.

They say there's a crime behind every fortune.