Italian Shoes Quotes

“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

“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

“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

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

“There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est qu'on a de la place pour les jambes.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“Neither you nor I believe in miracles. If they happen, they happen. But believing in them, expecting them – that’s nothing more than wasting the time alloted to you.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“El odio puede ser fuente de energía sólo por un tiempo limitado. Nos infunde la ilusión de ser fuertes pero, ante todo, es un parásito que nos devora”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“C'est comme d'attendre Dieu ou Godot, sauf qu'à la place, c'est Jansson qui arrive.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of really old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace. I”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes