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121 " Livet är vad vi gör om det till att vara. "
― John Ajvide Lindqvist , Handling the Undead
122 " When it comes to a life, all you can change is the equivalent of furniture, paint and windows. Doors, maybe. Change the things that are in too bad a state and hope the core holds. Despite everything. "
― John Ajvide Lindqvist , Harbor
123 " Elvy whispered, "Holy Virgin..." and did not dare to look. Because suddenly she understood what it meant, _tribulation, such was not since the beginning of the world_. It was what could be read in Mary's eyes. The suffering of a mother confronted with her dead child--and that child the sum of all goodness. Not simply the pain of watchin the child that you have nursed and cherished be tortured and executed, but the suffering, too, that there is a world in which such things happen. "
124 " It is perverse that love should be subject to the same conditions as the mortal flesh. That it should wither away and die with it. "
― John Ajvide Lindqvist , Let the Old Dreams Die
125 " I have heard it said about me that I am a man without ambition. In a way this is correct if by 'ambition' one means a desire to climb the career or status ladder or whatever it is called. But ambition can mean so many things. I, for example, have had the ambition to live a life of quiet dignity and I feel that in this I have succeeded. (short story, Let the Old Dreams Die) "
126 " Nothing. Apart from the people. And each person is a world within himself. "
― John Ajvide Lindqvist , I Am Behind You (Platserna, #1)
127 " Every man in the western suburbs who resembled the phantom picture was subjected to long, scrutinizing looks. These men went home and looked at themselves in the mirror, saw no resemblance whatsoever. In the evening, in bed, they wondered if they should change something about their appearance in the morning or would that seem suspicious? It would turn out they didn’t need to bother. People would soon have something else to think about. Sweden would become a changed nation. A violated nation. That was the word that was continually used: violated. "
― John Ajvide Lindqvist , Let the Right One In
128 " Terror gave birth to terror, hatred begat hate and all that was left in the end was a pile of burnt bodies. As everywhere; as always. "
129 " I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe. "
