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“Ordinary people listen to a huge amount of nonsense that they would be better off without.”
― Jonas Karlsson, The Room

“Margareta greeted almost all of them in an equally warm and friendly way, which put me in an even worse mood seeing as she really ought to realize that she was devaluing the impact of her smile if she used it on everyone.”
― Jonas Karlsson, The Room

“Fear: what did those who inflicted it know? They knew that it worked, even how it worked, but not what it felt like. ‘The wolf cannot speak of the fear of the sheep,’ as they say.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“He is haggard, he is pale. A handsome young man, brown eyes and brown hair, something in his face that will never be at ease.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise