Camilla Lackberg Quotes

#1. Then there were things
epic, terrible things
that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

Laini Taylor

#2. I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

Camilla Lackberg

#3. Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Camilla Lackberg

#4. In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

Camilla Lackberg

#5. One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

Camilla Lackberg

#6. And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.

Camilla Lackberg

#7. Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Lackberg

#8. Homicide investigations are about people,

Camilla Lackberg

#9. I don't care what you are, Gem. I want you. I love you.

Larissa Ione

#10. Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

John Milius

#12. Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

Camilla Lackberg

#13. One is expected to show a bit of eccentricity to be interesting. Otherwise one is simply a sad old crone, and no one wants that, you know.

Camilla Lackberg

#14. People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

Camilla Lackberg

#15. If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

Camilla Lackberg

#16. Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

Camilla Lackberg

#17. You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night

Dianne Reeves

#18. Forgiveness is its own reward.

Rickson Gracie

#19. I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

#20. After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.

John Cornforth

#21. I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Camilla Lackberg

#22. Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

Camilla Lackberg

#23. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Camilla Lackberg

#24. I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

Karen Carpenter

#25. They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but it was the only one they had. The alternative was to lie down and slowly pine away.

Camilla Lackberg

#26. Because,if you didn't allow yourself to love, you would risk losing everything.

Camilla Lackberg

#27. I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

Camilla Lackberg

#28. I pictured Dante kissing her, telling her everything was all right. Dante who loved kissing dogs, who loved kissing his parents, who loved kissing boys, who even loved kissing girls.

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