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1 " Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
2 " He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur #4)
3 " He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward. "
4 " The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up with the suffering it involves. Put up with the suffering we all have to endure, always, to get through that and find and enjoy the happiness and joy that it brings us as well, in spite of our being alive. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason
5 " It always seems to be the bloody perverts who seem happiest of all. Smile at the world as if there's never anything gnawing away at their bloody consciences. "
6 " أتظن أن ذلك لن يؤثر عليك؟ أتعتقد أنك قوي بما يكفي لتتحمل أشياء من ذلك النوع؟ أتظن أن باستطاعتك اكتساب مناعة ضد ذلك بمرور السنين ويمكنك مشاهدة كل القذارة من بعيد كأنها ليست من شأنك، وتحاول الحفاظ على رباطة جأشك؟ لكن ليست هناك أي مسافة، وليست هناك أي مناعة، لا أحد قوي بما يكفي، يلازمك الاشمئزاز كأنه شبح شرير في ذهنك، لا يتركك بسلام حتى تعتقد أن القذارة هي الحياة نفسها وتنسى كيف يعيش الناس العاديون. هذه قضيتك؛ مثل ذلك الأمر، مثل شبح شرير تم إطلاقه ليعيث فسادًا في ذهنك ولا يتركك إلا مُقعدًا "
7 " He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the curtains, but it forced its way past them in places, dust-filled sunbeams that lit up the gloom in his flat. Spring and summer were not Erlendur's seasons. Too bright. Too frivolous. He wanted heavy, dark winters. Finding nothing edible in the kitchen, he sat down at the table with his chin resting in his hand. "
8 " Erlender thought about Marion Briem and their shared story, which was now at an end. He felt a sense of loss and regret... He thought about their relationship, the experiences they had shared,the story that was part of him, that he could not and would not have done without. It was him. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Arctic Chill (Inspector Erlendur #7)
9 " Life was a random mass of unforeseeable coincidences that governed men’s fates like a storm that strikes without warning, causing injury and death. "
10 " All I know is that loneliness is a slow and painful death.’ Marion paused. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Voices (Inspector Erlendur #5)
11 " It only takes one cell to start cancer. "
12 " It was not like the old days and they both knew it. They were weighed down by the awareness of their failed relationship, of the wasted years, of the feelings that were no more, of the shared life that had unravelled. They were like weary receivers winding up a bankruptcy; all that remained was to tie up the loose ends and settle the final claims." (Black Skies) "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Black Skies (Inspector Erlendur #10)
13 " Women,” Erlendur said as he stood up. “They’re difficult to quality control. "
14 " What we preach in church. We believe in the resurrection on the Day of Judgement and in eternal life. The reunion of loved ones is the essence of the Easter message. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , Hypothermia (Inspector Erlendur #8)
15 " قال الجراح حين شعر أن أرلندور على وشك ان يفقد رباطة جأشه : ( يقولون أن الزمن يشفي كل الجراح، و يصح ذلك على الجسد و العقل في آن واحد ). قال ارلندور، وهو يضع البطانية على الطفلة مجدداً:( الزمن ؟ انه لا يشفي أي جراح ). "
16 " It’s socialism that makes it bearable for us to live under capitalism. "
― Arnaldur Indriðason , The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
17 " He looked at the dirty hands and elongated face and it occurred to him that this was probably the closest he would ever come to meeting a ghost. "
18 " Will you get any Christmas presents?’ she asked. ‘Maybe some socks,’ Erlendur said. ‘Hopefully "
19 " It sometimes occurred to her, which perhaps he too knew deep down inside, that the violence he inflicted on her was above all a manifestation of his own weakness. "
20 " Hann sá strax að þetta var mannsbein þegar hann náði því af barninu, sem setið hafði á gólfinu og tuggið á því. "
