The Burning Stones Quotes

“For a moment there, I thought you might be our killer,' he said, once agin as if he was reading my mind. 'But now I don't. Not after Porkka. This killer has skills that you don't have.'
Kaarlo's last sentence confused me for a moment. In a strange way, I'd taken offence : Lee Van Cleef was questionning my killing skills, he didn't think I had it in me. The absurd thouht quickly disappeared.
'What kind of skills are those?'
'You've been working on the Kahavuori order for months without results,' he said. 'In just a few weeks, this killer has sent two critical members of our team to the morgue. I'm sure you can see the difference in terms of initiative, determination and the drive to see projects through.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Burning Stones

“Age is just a number. Few proverbs lead us more astray than this one. Age is something very concrete indeed, as anyone who has done any kind of sport or who has danced in their youth knows only too well. Our legs lose their power, and no matter how much we try, it’s difficult to adapt to new forms of music. Time marches onwards, whizzes past us from left and right, it doesn’t care how many hoodies we own or how we try to be friends with our kids instead of an authority figure, our bald patches gleaming, leggings chafing. The more we try to hide the year of our birth, the more the young reward us with pity.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Burning Stones