An Event in Autumn Quotes

“There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, “the only things worth writing about are love and murder.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he’d been the newcomer.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“You can’t live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“I thought it went without saying that when the Soviet Union collapsed and the eastern states opened up, we would be plagued by a new kind of criminality in Sweden and Western Europe. And that is what happened.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“It’s about contradictions between us and inside us, between individuals and society, between dream and reality. Sometimes these contradictions express themselves in violence, such as racial conflict. And this mirror of crime can take us back to the Greek authors.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“It struck Wallander that nothing could make him as depressed as the sight of old spectacles that nobody wanted anymore.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“A question that wasn’t asked was a question that didn’t need an answer.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery