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“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.
"No work would be possible without coffee."
They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.”
― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”
― Henning Mankell, When the Snow Fell

“It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”
― Henning Mankell

“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“We’re always being made promises,’ she said. ‘You make them yourself
and you listen to others giving theirs. Politicians are always going
on about providing a better quality of life for people as they get older,
and a health service in which nobody ever gets bedsores. Banks promise
you high interest rates, some food promises to make you lose weight if
you eat it, and body creams guarantee old age with fewer wrinkles. Life
is quite simply a matter of cruising along in your own little boat through
a constantly changing but never-ending stream of promises. And how
many do we remember? We forget the ones we would like to remember,
and we remember the ones we’d prefer to forget.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“The stories I create are never as awful as reality.”
― Henning Mankell

“I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.”
― Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman

“‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”
― Henning Mankell, The White Lioness

“The evil always comes from details.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

“Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“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.”
― Henning Mankell, Die fünfte Frau

“We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.”
― Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author."

[As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website.]”
― Henning Mankell

“Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.”
― Henning Mankell

“We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats...nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular
God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond
the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of
built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not
merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until
now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or
Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an
abundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. But
there's a difference between our countries that is also a
similarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has different
faces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don't
have the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for your
survival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, and
I would not want to exchange that for your abundance.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

“The truth changes all the time.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing