Arnaldur Indridason Quotes & Sayings

We'll see what comes out of the autopsy. Obviously there's no problem getting hold of a knife at this hotel, if it was someone from here who attacked him. — Arnaldur Indridason

He looked at the dirty hands and elongated face and it occurred to him that this was probably the closest he would ever come to meeting a ghost. — Arnaldur Indridason

Erlendur didn't believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn't believe in God although he'd often
read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a
mixture of the two. — Arnaldur Indridason

Life was a random mass of unforeseeable coincidences that governed men's fates like a storm that strikes without warning, causing injury and death. — Arnaldur Indridason

It was not like the old days and they both knew it. They were weighed down by the awareness of their failed relationship, of the wasted years, of the feelings that were no more, of the shared life that had unravelled. They were like weary receivers winding up a bankruptcy; all that remained was to tie up the loose ends and settle the final claims. (Black Skies) — Arnaldur Indridason

He went into the kitchen. It was eight in the evening. He tried to shut the bright spring evening out with the curtains, but it forced its way past them in places, dust-filled sunbeams that lit up the gloom in his flat. Spring and summer were not Erlendur's seasons. Too bright. Too frivolous. He wanted heavy, dark winters. Finding nothing edible in the kitchen, he sat down at the table with his chin resting in his hand. — Arnaldur Indridason

It's socialism that makes it bearable for us to live under capitalism. — Arnaldur Indridason

What we preach in church. We believe in the resurrection on the Day of Judgement and in eternal life. The reunion of loved ones is the essence of the Easter message. — Arnaldur Indridason

[he] was a quiet, self-effacing boy - like a shy guest at the party of his own life. — Arnaldur Indridason

It always seems to be the bloody perverts who seem happiest of all. Smile at the world as if there's never anything gnawing away at their bloody consciences. — Arnaldur Indridason

The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up with the suffering it involves. Put up with the suffering we all have to endure, always, to get through that and find and enjoy the happiness and joy that it brings us as well, in spite of our being alive. — Arnaldur Indridason

Erlender thought about Marion Briem and their shared story, which was now at an end. He felt a sense of loss and regret ... He thought about their relationship, the experiences they had shared,the story that was part of him, that he could not and would not have done without. It was him. — Arnaldur Indridason

He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward. — Arnaldur Indridason

All I know is that loneliness is a slow and painful death.' Marion paused. — Arnaldur Indridason

Women," Erlendur said as he stood up. "They're difficult to quality control. — Arnaldur Indridason

He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it. — Arnaldur Indridason

It only takes one cell to start cancer. — Arnaldur Indridason

The greatest pain is to love, but love in vain,' Valgerdur quoted. — Arnaldur Indridason

They say that orgasm is a kind of moment of death,' he added, looking down at the body. — Arnaldur Indridason

A crow starves sitting," she said eventually. "But finds flying," Erlendur completed the proverb. — Arnaldur Indridason