Quotes from Camilla Lackberg

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.

Silence can never be taken back.

Because,if you didn't allow yourself to love, you would risk losing everything.

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.

Su ingenuidad y su bondad parecían convertirlo en un imán irresistible para mujeres que devoraban hombres para desayunar y después escupían los restos

She had hoped he would be an unpleasant man who was a blatant manifestation of his offensive views. Instead, she'd found something much more dangerous. An articulate person who invited trust and was able to provide simple answers. Someone who could help the voters identify a scapegoat and then promise to make it disappear.

Porque quien no ama, tampoco se arriesga a perder.

There seems to be some sort of sadness in you. I find that attractive. I'm suspicious of people who go around thinking life's a barrel of laughs the whole time. People who are always happy bore me. We're not supposed to be happy all the time, because then the world would stop.

People´s biggest problem, I realized, is that they project their own sorrow onto other people. Try to share them. They imagine that, because we share the same of sort of DNA, we will automatically feel sad about the same situations. Sorrow doesn't get easier to deal with simply because you share it. Quite the contrary, it gets heavier.

Urinary tract infections were nothing to play around with; that was the last thing she needed right now.

His heart definitely had a longer memory than his mind.

They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but it was the only one they had. The alternative was to lie down and slowly pine away.

The liberation of finding yourself at rock bottom. No risk of falling any deeper into shit.

mi marido me maltrata siempre que le apetece. Me pega donde no se ve, y yo acabo pensando que, si no se ve, no ha pasado nada

antes de perder el conocimiento, se había preguntado cuántas mujeres a lo largo de la historia habrían acabado su vida con esa misma imagen delante: la cara del hombre con el que se habían casado, con los rasgos desfigurados por la ira, asesinándolas.