Jar City Quotes

“أتظن أن ذلك لن يؤثر عليك؟ أتعتقد أنك قوي بما يكفي لتتحمل أشياء من ذلك النوع؟ أتظن أن باستطاعتك اكتساب مناعة ضد ذلك بمرور السنين ويمكنك مشاهدة كل القذارة من بعيد كأنها ليست من شأنك، وتحاول الحفاظ على رباطة جأشك؟ لكن ليست هناك أي مسافة، وليست هناك أي مناعة، لا أحد قوي بما يكفي، يلازمك الاشمئزاز كأنه شبح شرير في ذهنك، لا يتركك بسلام حتى تعتقد أن القذارة هي الحياة نفسها وتنسى كيف يعيش الناس العاديون. هذه قضيتك؛ مثل ذلك الأمر، مثل شبح شرير تم إطلاقه ليعيث فسادًا في ذهنك ولا يتركك إلا مُقعدًا”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“الأطفال فلاسفة، سألتني ابنتي ذات مرة في المستشفى: لماذا لدينا عينان؟ أجبتها: حتى نرى بهما.
صححت لي ، قالت: حتى نذرف الدموع منهما”
― أرنالدور أندريداسون, Jar City

“It only takes one cell to start cancer.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“It always seems to be the bloody perverts who seem happiest of all. Smile at the world as if there's never anything gnawing away at their bloody consciences.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“Women,” Erlendur said as he stood up. “They’re difficult to quality control.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“A crow starves sitting,” she said eventually. “But finds flying,” Erlendur completed the proverb.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.
Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was that
happened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“It was said that the homogenous nation and lack of miscegenation made Iceland a living laboratory for genetic research.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“Collectors make a world for themselves. They make a little world all around them, select certain icons from reality and turn them into the chief characters in that artificial world.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“It was a small flat, a sitting room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen, and it was an example of how careless people can be when they live alone,”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“you”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“had implied,”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Jar City

“las fotografías eran el espejo del tiempo,”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Las marismas

“Dios, cómo era posible que permitiera que un hombre como Rúnar viviese tanto tiempo y en cambio dejase morir a una niña inocente de cuatro años.”
― Arnaldur Indriðason, Las marismas