The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
“It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.”
“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.”