Depths Quotes

“Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent." p.179

"He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two people in the same bed pretending to sleep." p.213”
― Henning Mankell, Depths

“The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff were whispering. Even rocks have memories, as do waves and breakers. And down below, in the darkness where fish swam along invisible and silent channels, there were also memories.”
― Henning Mankell, Depths

“Extreme age is a spiritual pitched battle fought in the dark. A battle that inevitably ends in defeat. The darkness and degradation of old age is something for which religions have never been able to offer us consolation or satisfactory explanation.”
― Henning Mankell, Depths

“cottage was a cat, staring at him with watchful eyes. He had the impression it was the same cat as he had killed in his fury. He despised the supernatural. Human beings worked constantly to make their gods unnecessary.”
― Henning Mankell, Depths: A Novel