Eva

“The problem is that people can't sleep when they want to, but if they are forbidden to do so, they can't help dropping off. So the method consisted of keeping your eyes wide open and fixing your gaze on some point of the bedroom wall. If by any chance you shut your eyes, hundreds of nasty little demons would pour out of the spot and eat you up. And you are absolutely not allowed to treat this as a joke.. According to Marc, you invariably fall asleep after ten minutes max, unless of course you replace the little devils with little fairies, which would stop you falling asleep at all.”
― Fred Vargas, The Accordionist

“..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...”
― Håkan Nesser

“It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.”
― Hakan Nesser, Münsters Fall

“The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.”
― Håkan Nesser