The Fifth Woman

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

Good intentions that are not clothed in reason lead to greater disasters than those actions built on ill will or stupidity.

She almost blended in with the wall, dissolved, faded. Could a person become so pale that she was no longer visible?

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

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

It was only in the Western world that old people were viewed with indulgence or contemptuous sympathy. In other cultures, age was respected as the period of enlightened wisdom.

Life is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between pain and relief. Without ceasing, endless. She

It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.

Clarity arises in the spaces in between,

There was nothing monstrous about these soldiers who would kill anyone for the right amount of money. On the contrary, it was a definition of their humanity. According to Johan Ekberg.

Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn the development in another direction.

be having a hard time handling their jobs.

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.

Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.

In life, people walked together part of the way. Then their paths diverged, so slowly and unnoticed that it wasn’t clear what had happened until it was too late. And by that time they were already out of sight of each other.

Dans mon enfance, la Suède était un pays où les gens reprisaient encore leurs chaussettes. J'ai même appris à le faire. Puis soudain, un jour, c'était fini. On a commencer à jeter les chaussettes trouées. Personne ne prenait plus la peine de les raccommoder. Toute la société s'est transformée. Le fait de jeter les affaires usées, c'est devenu la seule règle qui concernait vraiment tout le monde. Bon, il devait bien y en avoir qui continuaient à repriser leurs affaires. Mails on ne les voyait plus. Aussi longtemps que ça ne concernait que les chaussettes, ce n'était peut-être pas si grave. Mais le phénomène s'est étendu. A la fin, c'est devenu comme une sorte de morale, invisible mais omniprésent. Je crois que ça a transformé notre vision du bien et du mal: ce qu'on a le droit de faire aux autres, et ce qu'on ne peut pas leur faire. Tout est devenu tellement plus dur.

Under it all was quagmire.