After almost two weeks, I finally finished this book. Two weeks doesn't seem that long for the average person to read a book, but for me, it is. The beginning was intriguing, and then it slacked off a little, which is why I didn't pick it up as much in my spare time. About halfway through, it got really good, and it wound up being more disturbing than I ever thought a Swedish vampire novel could be.
Oh, and it's better than Twilight.
But I think my dog could write a better vampire novel than Twilight.
...just saying.
Anyway, I started putting sticky notes next to quotes I particularly liked, because I always want to get them down here but can never find them when I go back. So this shouldn't take too long. Here are said sticky-noted quotes...
"My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of."
"'Hakan?'
'I love you.'
'Yes.'
'Do you love me, even one little bit?'
'Would you do it again if I said I loved you?'
'No.'
'I should love you anyway, you mean.'
'You only love me to the extent I help you stay alive.'
'Yes. Isn't that what love is?'
'If only I thought you would love me even if I didn't do it...'
'Yes?'
'...maybe I would do it again.'
'I love you.'
'I don't believe you.'
'Hakan. I can manage for a few more days but then...'
'Make sure you start to love me, then.'"
"It was school. That's all. This was school. They told you to do a lot of things and you did them. The whole thing had been invented so the teachers would be able to hand out photocopies. It didn't mean anything. He could just as well be writing Tjippiflax, Bubbelibang, and Spitt on these lines. It would be equally meaningful.
The only difference actually would be that his teacher would say it was wrong. That it wasn't the correct name. Then she would point to the map and say, 'Look, here it says Chungking, not Tjippiflax.' Pretty weak argument, since somebody had made up the names in the geography book. Nothing spoke for it being true. And maybe the Earth was really flat, but this was being kept secret for some reason." \
"Her pupils were so large that they almost filled the whole iris, the lights from the building reflected in the black surface and it looked like she had a distant city in her head."
"If you thought about it, it was actually pretty sick. To do this. Burn people up, save the ashes, bury them in the ground, and then call the spot 'Grave 104, Section D.'"
"'This is complete utter insanity.'
'Yes, but that's how it is.'"
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