Quotations: Jar City

Arnaldur Indridason

- The October dusk spread over the city and the rain slapped abound in the autumn wind.

- He didn't know exactly what is was that he ate. The ornate packaging promised something about oriental delights but the meal itself, concealed within some kink of pastry roll, tasted like hair oil.

- Elin stopped talking and the gloom in the sitting room enveloped them.

- She handed Erlendur the piece of paper and he read the first five words from the Psalm he'd looked up in the Bible earlier: " Hear my voice, O God."

- Erlendur turned around and looked up to Marion standing in the doorway and he saw how age had left its mark on that air of respectability, how rounded shoulders could diminish dignity and a wrinkled face bear witness to a difficult life.

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