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“To grow old is to live in fear. The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old.”

“Sweden had turned into a country where people seemed to be afraid of being bothered more than anything else. Nothing was more sacred than ingrained routine.”

“Write like a terrorist just busted in and threatened to kill you all — like you have a semiautomatic machine gun at your skull.”

“It came on the wind, the way wicked things must, for they are most often weighted down with spite and haven't the strength to lift themselves.”

“Not even digging a hole, a pit, would be enough. It needs to be thrown into the desert and devoured by wild beasts. Desire, that is.”

“Apparently the radiation from mobile phones causes cancer. My hand is a terminal case.”

“It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life.”

“Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.”

“But love was not about practice and preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun.”

“This is a God I have found through sacrificing my own life, through my flesh being cut, my skin ripped off, my blood sucked away, my nails torn, all my time and hopes and memories being stolen from me. This is not a God with a form. No white clothes, no long beard. This God has no doctrine, no scripture, no precepts. No reward, no punishment. This God doesn't give, and doesn't take away…”

“Two story lines at work, with different starting points, but running parallel to each other.”

She keeps feeling for the blindfold.
She keeps wishing for the secret society to fall.

Really good climax…

“Maybe this was power: creating moments of history that normal people could attach themselves to, feel part of.”