The Dark Heart Quotes

“Live in the now and be happy about what you do have, not about what you could have.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“Film director Ingmar Bergman called it “the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are at their most powerful.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“In a crime novel, this would have been enough to secure the convictions of both Martin Törnblad and Sara Lundblad. But the police live in the real world.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“Intuitive interrogation strategy: validate the other person, then present alternatives. That is what makes people talk. And some talk more than others.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“She felt downtrodden and abused. Not physically—Martin had never gone further than to restrain her—but psychologically, because she could never be sure how he was going to react. His mood changed from day to day when he came home from work—if he was in a bad mood, he would give her a hard time.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“It would be a perfect degree for Sara, since she had to balance her work in her family’s forests with her studies. The program was online-based with only a handful of physical classes—labs—each term. After three years of education in close partnership with industry organizations, students had to produce a dissertation and would receive a BA. A graduate from this program would be an academically educated forest owner who could take over a profitable family business.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“Being assisted by his son and granddaughter was too embarrassing, so he managed to secure a place at a nursing home. The fee structure there was income-dependent; residents with a lot of property paid more for room, board, and care. Poorer residents lived for free.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“was granted permission to wiretap the two main characters”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“Ultimately, it seemed that this was a result of his shyness and insecurity, the way a person can become when they grow up in the shadow of an overbearing and domineering father.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“Like a game of telephone, where a whispered phrase is passed from participant to participant. And as every child who has played the game knows, the phrase eventually transforms into something completely different from what was first uttered.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“The best lies always contain a grain of truth. That also makes them easier to keep track of.”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

“The best lies always contain a grain of truth”
― Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator