They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her T-shirt, lifted her…

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the a…

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of hims…

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number …

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes,…

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

- John Ajvide Lindqvist

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

- John Ajvide Lindqvist