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“There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“There is a special kind of beauty that manifests itself only in the faces of very old women. Their furrowed skin contains all the marks and memories imprinted by a life lived. Old women whose bodies the earth is crying out to embrace.”
― Henning Mankell, Italian Shoes

“Not everything can go according to the plan.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“A message was scribbled on the wall: Life is for sale. Alert the news for the media.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“I can’t deal with angry people until after I’ve had my morning coffee.”
― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

“Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one’s life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival.”
― Henning Mankell

“No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“Ако ми се беше развикала, щях да си плюя на петите - помисли си Юел. - Но как да избягам от жена, която изглежда толкова тъжна?”
― Henning Mankell, A Bridge to the Stars

“A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“'What was that?' Wallander said.
[Linda] 'Nothing.'
'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.'
'I didn't say anything.'
'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing

“You can't interrupt the process of making a key once you've started. It lets a kind of hesitation into the iron. That happens and the key will never sit well in its lock.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment of glass from a mirror.”
― Henning Mankell, Arenas movedizas

“He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he’d been the newcomer.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“I intend to die with a bottle of champagne by my bed. I'll drink a toast to the fact that, despite everything, I was able to experience the singular adventure of being born, living and one day disappearing into the darkness once again.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.”
― Henning Mankell

“The cold was a sea, the house a ship, and the winter an endless waiting.”
― Henning Mankell, A Treacherous Paradise

“Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat--an order he had been delighted to obey.”
― Henning Mankell, The White Lioness

“The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, “the only things worth writing about are love and murder.”
― Henning Mankell, An Event in Autumn: A Kurt Wallander Mystery

“On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Сам съм си майка.”
― Henning Mankell, A Bridge to the Stars

“He had never been particularly inclined to philosophical meditation. He had never felt a need to delve into himself. Life was a continual interplay among various practical questions awaiting a solution. Whatever was out there was something inescapable which he could not affect no matter how much he worried about some meaning that probably didn’t even exist. Having a few minutes of solitude was another thing altogether. It was the vast peace that lay hidden in not having to think at all. Just listen, observe, sit motionless.”
― Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

“He wondered if he was simply starting to crumble under the weight of all the responsibility and was now on a downward trajectory to a point where only fear remained. He”
― Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

“Погледна ръчния си часовник. Времето ли отминаваше или животът му?”
― Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman

“A história não é só o que deixamos para trás, mas é também algo que nos vai acompanhando ao longo da vida.”
― Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man

“The skerry was resting in the sea. It was like being in a cradle, or on a deathbed, he thought. All the voices hidden in the cliff were whispering. Even rocks have memories, as do waves and breakers. And down below, in the darkness where fish swam along invisible and silent channels, there were also memories.”
― Henning Mankell, Depths

“New love might replace an earlier love, but the old love is always there, no matter what. You live your life on two levels, probably to avoid falling through without a trace if a hole appears in one of them.”
― Henning Mankell

“Good intentions that are not clothed in reason lead to greater disasters than those actions built on ill will or stupidity.”
― Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman

“There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.”
― Henning Mankell, The Man from Beijing