Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival! It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally... read more

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“"A girlfriend who was pregnant. A young man who wasn't going to take responsibility. That's how it was. Happened all the time. No one thought of anything but themselves. 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."”
“His gaze stopped at an ad for women's underwear. A woman was posing seductively in black lace panties, and a bra. It was crazy, naked skin wherever you looked. Why was it tolerated? What effect did it have on people's heads, on love?”