Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.