John Ajvide Lindqvist Quotes

• 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.

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  Dark, Important, Impossible

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Little Star: A Novel”, p.278, Macmillan

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• Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

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  Real, Love Is, Feet

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

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  Thoughts On Life

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• Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.

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  Fall, Inspiration, Simple

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.232, Hachette UK

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• But then, it's probably different when you're young.

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  Different, Young

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.472, Macmillan

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• Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.

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  Hurt, Long, Comfort

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• That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

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  Moving, Rooms, These Days

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Let the Old Dreams Die”, p.105, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Drinking, People, Drug

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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.

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  Way, Lost, Expected

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place. If you want to believe in something like Fate, she's a capricious character. Sometimes she stand there blocking the doorway you were born to pass through, and sometimes she takes you by the hand and leads you through the minute you poke your nose out. And the stars gaze down and keep their counsel.

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  Stars, Block, Believe

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2012). “Little Star: A Novel”, p.259, Macmillan

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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

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  Real, Love Is, Feet

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.20, Macmillan

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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.

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  Air, Wind, Sea

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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.

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  Fear, Drinking, Blood

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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.

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  Mom, Fear, Fire

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• Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

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  Long, Twelve, Long Time

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan

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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)

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  Eye, Stronger, Handsome

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• He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime.

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  Real, Hands Up, Numbers

  John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.10, Macmillan

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• They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her T-shirt, lifted her hands, let them fall. 'I'm never going to hurt you.' 'I know that.' 'What are you thinking about?' 'That T-shirt. Is it from the trash room?' '...yes.' 'Have you washed it?' Eli didn't answer. 'You're a little gross, you know that?' 'I can change, if you like.' 'Good. Do that.

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  Hurt, Fall, Thinking

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