Quotes from Henning Mankell

Han lutade sig mot relingen, gav sin tribut till evigheten och spottade i havet.

A criminal investigation is like a construction site. Everything has to be done in the proper order or the building won't hold up.

Growing older meant losing a little bit of energy every single day. And one day it would be completely gone.

Hate can blind people in the same way envy can. Or jealousy. - Kurt Wallander

This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.

Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.

Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme.

The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.

People have faces. […] Spirits don't have faces. And yet we recognise them. We know who is who. Spirits don't have eyes or mouths or ears either. And yet they can see and speak and hear. […] The spirits are all around us. […] They're right here, but we can't see them.

In many ways Martinsson was the opposite of Svedberg: he was coming up to 30, born in Trollhättan, and had set his sights early on a police career. As a police officer, Martinsson was impulsive and sometime careless, but he often had good ideas and his ambition meant that he worked tirelessly when he though he could see a solution to a problem.

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.

His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He

Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

Esu sur?k?s tiek daug cigare?i?, kad suguldžius ? linij? j? užtekt? nuo Stokholmo centro iki Siodertelj?s. Maždaug nuo Butšiurkos cigaret?s jau su filtru, bet nuo to ne k? geriau.

Vorremmo che tutto potesse ripetersi, potesse tornare ad essere precisamente come era disse Karin. Ma invecchiare significa anche imparare a difendersi dal sentimentalismo. L'amicizia deve essere messa alla prova e rinnovarsi. Forse i vecchi amori non cambiano mai. Ma l'amicizia sì.

Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr

Patience, he would have said. When stones start rolling down a slope, it's important not to start running after them right away. Stay where you are and watch them rolling, see where they come to a stop. That's what he would have said.

Don't you understand that this is serious?" she screamed. "Anna is missing!

In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.

My shortcomings are no excuse for others acting in that way," Wallander said. "Not my superior in any case.

The house wasn't locked. Wallander looked

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be having a hard time handling their jobs.

Quel suo fantomatico viaggio sulle Alpi aveva svelato una verità nascosta che portava dentro di sé. Sapeva di non essere un uomo che si nasconde dietro alle proprie menzogne. Ma allo stesso tempo aveva iniziato a chiedersi sempre più spesso se la sua visione del mondo non fosse in realtà una specie di menzogna, anche se derivava da una mancanza di sensibilità più che da un consapevole allontanamento dalla verità.