I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.

The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.