Sara Blaedel > Quotes

“It brings me peace to know that it all began with crime fiction as a child, and that it is there, after a thousand detours, that I have landed again. As a child I found peace in crime novels, and it is with them that I find peace today. There has been some turbulence along the way, but I wouldn’t have avoided any of it. I wouldn’t have reached the place I have without all of it happening.”
― Sara Blaedel

“What do you want to get away from?' she repeated and put her hands around his face. Finally he turned his head and looked at her with pain in his eyes and a dry laugh. 'Me,' he said. 'It's completely trivial. A lonely heart and pain and something that never heals.”
― Sara Blaedel, The Forgotten Girls

“she was the kind of person willing to give up sex if it meant also giving up the pressure of having to be something for someone else. “Do”
― Sara Blaedel, The Forgotten Girls

“He nodded, Is she awake?
Not really, but she had enough spunk in her to call Birte Jensen a bitch, so she's getting there.
He smiled.”
― Sara Blaedel, The Midnight Witness

“She wasn’t sure, but he sounded a bit jealous. Louise studied him for a moment. She was in love. She’d acknowledged it sometime that night. It was his awkward charm, the personality that behind his scrubby leather jacket was mild, full of warmth and empathy. He was both darkness and light. He’d gotten inside her in a way that made her long for him whenever he wasn’t there.”
― Sara Blaedel, The Killing Forest

“remarkable speed, and since then it had been business as usual when Lars officially replaced Søren after he was transferred “on loan” to an elite national”
― Sara Blædell, Call Me Princess