“ Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry. Jo Nesbo
“ But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is un… Jo Nesbo
“ Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology. Jo Nesbo
“ What do we mean by ‘crazy’? What do we mean by ‘mad’? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or ar… Jo Nesbo
“ Can you feel it? The vibration? It’s the energy from everyone around us. It’s in the air. If you’re dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absorb s… Jo Nesbo
“ Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that. Jo Nesbo
“ Smoking’s banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,” he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer. Jo Nesbo
“ No one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live. Jo Nesbo
“ Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were. Jo Nesbo
“ ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that… Jo Nesbo
“ Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I'm the lowest grade.''I didn't mean to criticize you.''I promise t… Jo Nesbo
“ Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptom… Jo Nesbo
“ No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. We’re simple souls like that, aren’t we? Jo Nesbo
“ Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more. Jo Nesbo
“ With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge.… Jo Nesbo
“ Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time. Jo Nesbo
“ You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn. Jo Nesbo
