“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Yo creo que más bien los atrae el saberse en las cercanías de la crueldad , con la tranquilidad de que no es uno el mismo afectado”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Nos quejamos de lo mal que están las cosas, pero yo a veces me pregunto si no están ya mucho peor de lo que nos imaginamos”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace,” Lundstr”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“What we’re in is a vacuum.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“I can’t deal with angry people until after I’ve had my morning coffee.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Sometimes parents don’t know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“At that age, they’re as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“the remnants of a person’s life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Wallander si avviò verso il distributore di bevande. Ma si rese conto di non averemonete.Un uomo anziano con due grucce uscì da una stanza muovendosi con grande fatica.Quando Wallander gli chiese se pote
sse cambiargli un banconota, l‘uomo scosse il capo,
mise la mano nella tasca della vestaglia e gli diede le monete necessarie per il caffè. Wallander rimase con la banconota tesa
senza sapere cosa fare.
―Morirò fra poco‖ disse l‘uomo sorridendo. ―Più o
meno fra due o tre settimane. Non
so proprio cosa farmene dei soldi.‖
L‘uomo si allontanò lentamente. Sembrava essere di ottimo umore.
Wallander lo seguì con uno sguardo ammirato. Spinse il pulsante sbagliato e fucostretto a bere un cappuccino, cosa che non faceva mai.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“self-preservation was more important than revenge, and”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“slowly peel away all the extraneous layers. There are tracks and marks left at every crime scene, like shadows of the event itself. That’s what you have to find.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“There are evil circumstances and environments, not evil per se. But here I sense the actions of a truly darkened mind. Wallander reached for Svedberg’s pocket calendar”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
“in the end it comes down to a who and a why. Only one who. And one lone why.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
Henning Mankell
Born place: in Stockholm, Sweden
Born date February 3, 1948
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“Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Children of Húrin
“A Roman came to Rabbi Gimzo the Water Carrier, and asked, "What is this study of the law that you Jews engage in?" and Gimzo replied, "I shall explain. There were two men on a roof, and they climbed down the chimney. One's face became sooty. The other's not. Which one washed his face?" The Roman said, "That's easy, the sooty one, of course." Gimzo said, "No. The man without the soot looked at his friend, saw that the man's face was dirty, assumed that his was too, and washed it." Cried the Roman, "Ah ha! So that's the study of law. Sound reasoning." But Gimzo said, "You foolish man, you don't understand. Let me explain again. Two men on a roof. They climb down a chimney. One's face is sooty, the other's not. Which one washes?" The Roman said, "As you just explained, the man without the soot." Gimzo cried,"No, you foolish one! There was a mirror on the wall and the man with the dirty face saw how sooty it was and washed it." The Roman said, "Ah ha! So that's the study of law! Conforming to the logical." But Rabbi Gimzo said, "No, you foolish one. Two men climbed down the chimney. One's face became sooty? The other's not? That's impossible. You're wasting my time with such a proposition." And the Roman said, "So that's the law! Common sense." And Gimzo said, "You foolish man! Of course it was possible. When the first man climbed down the chimney he brushed the soot away. So the man who followed found none to mar him." And the Roman cried, "That's brilliant, Rabbi Gimzo. Law is getting at the basic facts." And for the last time Gimzo said, "No, you foolish man. Who could brush all the soot from a chimney? Who could ever understand all the facts?" Humbly the Roman asked, "Then what is the law?" And Gimzo said quietly, "It's doing the best we can to ascertain God's intention, for there were indeed two men on a roof, and they did climb down the same chimney. The first man emerged completely clean while it was the second who was covered with soot, and neither man washed his face, because you forgot to ask me whether there was any water in the basin. There was none.”
― James A. Michener, quote from The Source
“True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Weaveworld
“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.”
― Philip Roth, quote from American Pastoral
“But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
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