Firewall Quotes

“Each room has its own life and breath. You have to listen for it . A room can tell you many secrers about the person who lives there. - Rydberg”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“members of society were being connected ever more tightly by new technological innovations. But this highly efficient electronic network came at the cost of increased vulnerability to sabotage and terror.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“Through Falk, he had come to understand that he who controlled electronic communication controlled everything. It was especially what Falk told him about how wars would be fought in the future that excited him. Bombs would be nothing more than computer viruses smuggled into the enemy’s storehouse of weapons. Electronic signals could eliminate the enemy’s stock markets and telecom networks. The time of nuclear submarines was over. Future threats would come barrelling down the miles of fiberoptic cables that were slowly entangling the world like a spiderweb.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“My own life is as incomprehensible as the fact that the light I now see from the stars has been traveling for eons.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“Men are often childish and vain, although they deny it. - Marianne Falk”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“One has to be able to trust people. Or rather, one has to be able to rely on one’s own judgement.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall

“Could you hold Martinsson’s flashlight for a moment?” Wallander said to Hansson.
“Why?”
“Just do it, please.”
Martinsson handed Hansson his flashlight. Wallander took a step forward and hit Martinsson in the face. However, since it was hard to judge the distance between them in the shifting beams of the flashlights, the blow didn’t land squarely on the jaw as intended. It was more of a gentle nudge.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“What the hell are you doing?” Wallander yelled back.
Then he threw himself on Martinsson and they fell into the mud. Hansson tried to grab them as they fell, but slipped.”
― Henning Mankell, Firewall