The Nightmare Quotes
"In a real fight, no rules apply. It’s not a game—it’s a real fight."
"When you’re in a fight for your life, no rules apply."
"Most of you know more about hand-to-hand combat than I do."
"But one thing I do know is when you’re in a fight for your life, no rules apply."
"Be flexible. Take advantage of anything and everything that comes your way."
"Accept the idea of pain. When you’re in close combat without a weapon, you may have to take a real pounding to win as quickly as you can."
"He goes down the stairs to the forecabin and sees Penelope sleeping."
"He returns to the afterdeck and begins to fill the tub using a bucket with a long rope attached."
"Perhaps the suspect wanted information from her or to force her to tell or confess to something until he finally held her under enough that she could no longer resist the urge to draw a breath."
"Death is horrible and it never gives you anything back."
"Fear is not constant. Now and then there’s room for rational thought."
"Not everyone on the force finds left-wing shenanigans and sabotage amusing."
"It’s useless to guess, Joona. We don’t know what happened."
"She’s like a grandchild to me. So sweet, so kind, so pleasant."
"You could show me how real Finns use the sauna."
"I’ve been calling and calling, but I can’t reach my girls."
"We’ve got to get help," he pleads. "Not yet."
"You have worked against the flow of weapons to war zones, and that is precisely what ISP stands for."
"I just need to sleep," he says. All at once, he feels as if he’ll burst into tears.
"I hate that picture," she says. "Are they just going to hang there? Why don’t you give them to someone who can play them?"
"What happened?" she asks in a fearful voice. Joona bends forward, down to her. "We don’t know much yet, but yesterday, Penelope tried to call you."
"Promise me you’ll be careful." "The only thing I worry about is whether Daniel Marklund will be here."
"But you should know that I’ve been sick." "Who has not?"
"We have to zigzag, change our direction all the time, keep deep in the forest, and head toward nothing at all."
"I believe she is entirely capable of taking care of herself," Joona replies.
"You guys looking for someone?" she yells as they start walking up a metal staircase. "Yes," Pollock says, but his voice is low.
"Sunlight floods in through the windows and the smell of green soap lingers in the air."
"People refuse to accept that their lives are going to change. Instead, they keep on with the old routine."
"The forensic technician’s protective mats have been removed and the floor underneath the ceiling lamp in the empty salon has been scrubbed."
"There seems to be no lasting impression of Palmcrona’s suicide."
"I do not know who you are, but I do know you have no idea what you are getting yourself into."
"It is already too late. We are both dead men."
"I’ve stopped believing in coincidences when it comes to this investigation."
"I’ve sent the photograph. Forget I even tried to contact you."
"The house appears merely uninhabited, filled with a quiet sense of peace."
"The mail had already been sorted when it arrived here."
"The area needed to stabilize after the peace agreement in 2005."
"Rules are rules. You’ll get it after I get what I want."
"It’s not as if the two women would ever be confused one for the other, but now he spots one reminder, one trait after the other that they both share."
"It’s already much too late to flee, but Björn spots a screwdriver from above the instrument panel as a last-resort defense."
"Penelope stands at the window. The skies flash bright from lightning and thunder rolls over the sea."
"The indictment includes the president’s direct involvement in orders for plundering, rape, forced displacement, torture, murder, and genocide for all three ethnic groups in Darfur."
"The gift is not enough. It’s not enough for anyone."
"I’m sending along a love letter from a secret admirer."
"She’d been found in bed the next morning when she’d been missed at breakfast."
"He stamps on it and pieces of wood fly in all directions."
"We’re looking into a case of unexpected death."
"He pulls out his gun, undoes the safety, and then knocks at the door."
"A spider makes a net from two kinds of threads."
"Once you’ve kissed his hand, so to speak, there is no way out."
"You can’t break a Paganini contract even if you die."
"For your loyalty, I will offer something that you really, truly want."
"He uses the knife himself... he screamed at me that I was reaping my nightmare."
"I see that you don’t comprehend what’s really going on here."
"He’s going to escape when everyone’s working to put out the fire."
"Tell me it’s not too late and that I don’t have to reap my nightmare."
"The desire is on one side of the scale," Raphael continues. "The nightmare is on the other."
"Life happens with many outer trappings while inside we have deep unfulfilled longings that we desire, and also nightmares that never come true."
"You cannot go out to Raphael’s boat without backup," Saga states firmly.
"Nothing about this makes me happy," Pasi Rannikko says with a frown.
"As soon as we have the arrest warrant, we’ll almost be a platoon," Pasi Rannikko says in a monotone.
"I hope to have something from the prosecutor before we get there," Joona says soothingly.
"The second you get your arrest warrant, I’ll contact FNS Hanko," Pasi Rannikko promises.
"Maybe you’d like a glass of wine now," he says. "Since in a few days you’ll have a new liver."
"There’s an interesting thing about desire," Raphael begins.
"Complete loneliness is my worst nightmare," Raphael says.
"I don’t have anything to say to her, so why would I have her phone number?" Evert Andersson replies.
"She’s not the one who’s sick," Herbert Saxéus says about Beverly. "No, she lives in a sick world."
"We have a witness! She saw Axel Riessen being kidnapped! We have a witness!" Saga exclaims.
"It is a contract even beyond death. You can never be released from it," Raphael explains about the Paganini contract.
"I just felt like it," Anja says after nipping Joona. "I wanted to see what would happen. You never know unless you try…"