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It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Are you OLD?"
"No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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It was like a blackout in reverse. Since around nine o'clock, no lamps could be switched off, no electrical appliances powered down. If you tried to pull out the plug there was an alarming crackling sound and sparks flew between the outlet and the plug, preventing the circuit from being broken. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Closed his mouth. Then pressed a kiss on Oskar's lips. For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was ... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain.
Replaceable. He was ... replaceable. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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There was silence on the other end. The static crackle from one hundred kilometres of telephone lines. Crows sitting on them, shivering, while people's conversations darted past under their feet. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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He didn't want to scream anymore. Didn't have the energy. The veils now covered his entire field of vision. He didn't have a body any longer. The colors danced. He melted into the rainbow. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Daddy, what's that? -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Please, dear God. Let her come back. You can have whatever you like. All my magazines, all my books, my things. Whatever you want. But just make it so she comes back. To me. Please, please God. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Notes from his conversations with the boys who had been at the pool last night. Their accounts basically matched up, and one word had turned up frequently: angel. Oskar Eriksson had been rescued by an angel. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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-there was something in her, something that was ... pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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There was something vaguely menacing about the way the two children were moving behind the smiling, unsuspecting family. Like predators -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Our fate is determined in rooms that must be easy to clean -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Just as the moon brought out the wolf in a werewolf, so alcohol brought this creature out of his dad. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Eli was new to him and therefore he had the opportunity to be someone else, say something different from what he said to other people. What -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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But Eva was not dead, he was not allowed to grieve. And she was not alive, so he could not hope. Nothing. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Let the right one in Let the old dreams die Let the wrong ones go They cannot do What you want them to do - Morrissey, Let the Right One Slip In -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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But the simple fact of bearing a responsibility can be something that gives meaning to life. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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We are always in a certain amount of pain. There is chafing somewhere, and if it isn't in our body, then it's in our mind. There's an itch, all the time. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was ... himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love. (Let the Right One In) -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Which monster do you choose? -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Viktor had been very sad about their grandfather's death, but Flora had intuited that it was less the person he grieved for than the fact of death itself. Death meant that people actually disappeared. That everyone was going to disappear -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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When it comes to 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. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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A new life? There's not such thing.
It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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This time he shouted a little more loudly, and his heart began to beat a little more quickly. It was foolish, of course. There was no chance she could have got lost here. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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But love? Who can say what is just a mire of dark needs and desires, and what is true love? Does such a thing exist? Can't it be that if we say, 'I love you' to another person and know that we mean it, then that is love, regardless of the motive? -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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A lot of screams for so little wool, said the man who sheared the pig -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Perhaps what set the saints apart - the holy women and men - was that they held fast to what they had seen, not allowing their realisation to fade and die, but they held on, held on and refused to let go, saw forgetfulness as a tool of the devil and held on. Maybe this was the secret. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Which circle did Dante himself go to after death... -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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That's what love looks like. It can happen. Two people can find one another, and then work together to sustain that amorphous, incomprehensible third party that has arisen between them. Love becomes an entity unto itself; the thing that determines how life is to be lived. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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The offender was determined to be extremely violent, in official terms. Completely fucking crazy, in other words. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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A graveyard could be so densely populated and yet it was the loneliest place on earth. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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For him,she was the one who dominated the heavens and made the world a place it was possible to live in -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't unusual ... -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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But then, it's probably different when you're young. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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What the hell did he ramble on about? Werewolves?" "Vampires." "Yeah. That's not a sign that you're doing so damned great, is it?" The -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
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When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist