The Sandman Quotes
"Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant."
"Despair can lead us to believe that the whisper in the wind is the voice of reason."
"In the darkest of times, hope is something you give yourself."
"The greatest illusion in this world is the illusion of separation."
"Truth is a matter of perspective, seen through the lens of our experiences."
"In moments of doubt, the smallest act of kindness can be a saving grace."
"Our greatest battles are those with our own mind."
"In the maze of life, love is the thread that guides us home."
"He doesn’t know how to explain that everything he does now is just random fumbling for something to help him survive the next minute."
"She lights up the room like molten glass, like a princess from a fairy tale."
"I’m not scared of monsters, but I’m smart enough to be scared of Jurek Walter."
"Killing is neither good nor bad, but it feels strange the first few times, like eating something you didn’t think was edible."
"Anyone who ends up here is violent. Your medical notes say so, and the forensic psychiatrist’s report says so. But that’s not what anyone sees when they look at you."
"We do everything we can to stave off separation."
"I’ve been waiting for this for quite a long time, I have to say."
"He’s going to be fine," she interrupts, opening the door.
"We have eighteen thousand kilometers of railroad lines in Sweden. We might as well get digging."
"The postmortal process forms a sort of diary, an ongoing life after death, as the body changes."
"We’re not supposed to, but I never imagined..."
"Patients can say the most terrible things. You have to put up with all sorts of threats. But it was different with Jurek."
"He spoke an unusually refined Russian, as if he were a professor at Lomonosov."
"You told him you didn’t want anything to do with his letter," Joona says.
"I don’t know why. I suppose I was thinking that it was a human right, but he isn’t human."
"I saw him in the parking lot in front of the hospital," she says quietly.
"That’s not true, Susanne," Joona says gently.
"Russia is so beautiful, it’s almost frightening."
"Maybe I’ll burn in hell for that?" he says pensively.
"We used to call the young engineers and workmen who were sent to the cosmodrome in Leninsk ‘rocket fuel.’"
"I’m proud of our actions in Beslan, and in my opinion Anna Politkovskaya was a traitor."
"You did the right thing, coming to me, Joona Linna," Karpin says.
"Don’t worry about me. I have to be here anyway."
"We’ve found her," Saga reassures him. "She’s alive, and she’s going to be all right."
"I’m not sure there are any answers," she says.
"It’s going to be okay, Mikael," Reidar says, trying to keep his voice calm.
"Don’t let him take me, Dad," he says, sobbing.
"He’s dragging Mikael behind him. They’re more than a hundred meters away."
"I’m on sick leave, but after this…I don’t know."
"Saga Bauer, you have done a great deed for your country," Verner says.
"Where are you? Just tell me where you are. Let me come and get you."
"The only person who doesn’t stop looking is Saga Bauer, because she knows he isn’t dead."