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change of scene. A new start. And it worked. -- Jo Nesbo
Buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg -- Jo Nesbo
Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. -- Jo Nesbo
He feels a need to be understood. Most people do, you know. -- Jo Nesbo
When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea. -- Jo Nesbo
Our bodyguard is a born-again Christian with a father complex, a drinking problem, intellectual limitations and not enough backbone to do his military service with honor. In short, a guy we should be pleased is going to be reelected today. -- Jo Nesbo
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. -- 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
You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on. -- Jo Nesbo
I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect. -- Jo Nesbo
Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance. -- Jo Nesbo
Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry. -- Jo Nesbo
The younger officer accompanying Waaler was learning something new every day. This afternoon, for example, he learned it was very stupid to rock on a chair while insulting someone, because you are totally defenseless if the insulted party steps over and lands a straight right between the eyes. -- Jo Nesbo
[Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.
[Harry] At least until you land.
[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being. -- Jo Nesbo
We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn't possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that's not true. Maybe they don't want to live like other people - it just wouldn't suit them. -- Jo Nesbo
As usual, he had escaped into his work when his private life became too much of a burden. It was typical of a certain type of man, he had read. -- Jo Nesbo
Threats generally work best when delivered in a neutral key. -- Jo Nesbo
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.' -- Jo Nesbo
Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction. Ignoring the warning on the cigarette packet might not be the most flamboyant act of rebellion a man could allow himself, but at least it was one he could afford. -- Jo Nesbo
Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold. -- Jo Nesbo
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write! -- Jo Nesbo
No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for that. -- Jo Nesbo
I'm just one of the many millions of lonely souls trying to live on the face of this earth. I'm trying to acquit myself without making too many mistakes. Now and then I may even be on top of things enough to try and do some good. That's all. -- 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 to be better in my next life ... -- Jo Nesbo
I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed. -- Jo Nesbo
As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last. -- Jo Nesbo
Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world. -- Jo Nesbo
Perhaps it's just that people, wherever they live on the globe, somehow share the same visions or fantasies. It's in our nature, wired into the hard drive, so to speak. Despite all the differences, sooner or later, we still come up with the same answers. - Harry Hole -- Jo Nesbo
An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I'm afraid to say, has been understood. -- Jo Nesbo
A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom -- Jo Nesbo
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do. -- Jo Nesbo
In the supermarket Harry had bought a pizza grandiosa which he heated in the oven. He thought how odd it was to be sitting in Sweden, eating Italian food made in Norway. -- Jo Nesbo
I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson. -- Jo Nesbo
I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. -- Jo Nesbo
You can't see a person more nakedly than that, when they don't know they're being watched, studied. -- Jo Nesbo
Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen. -- Jo Nesbo
The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons. -- Jo Nesbo
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. -- Jo Nesbo
Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma? -- Jo Nesbo
Most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with the shortest working hours in the world, the biggest health budget and the highest proportion of sick leave. -- Jo Nesbo
We have forensic psychiatrists who try to draw a line between those who are sick and those who are criminal, and they bend and twist the truth to make it fit into their world of theoretical models. -- Jo Nesbo
A few days later Kurt called him to say that Harry Hole had been sent to the front, to some God-forsaken place in Sweden. Brandhaug had literally rubbed his hands with glee. -- Jo Nesbo
Nybakk's shotgun in Oppsal was the easier option. Furthermore, a shotgun gave him more room to maneuver. To retrieve the rifle -- Jo Nesbo
There is nothing that makes a man grow beyond his stature than a woman telling him she loves him. and however much she might have lied to him, there will always be a part of him that is grateful to her for this, and that will harbour some love for her. -- Jo Nesbo
The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again. -- Jo Nesbo
Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts. -- Jo Nesbo
Who was the mad bastard who taught you to drive?' he asked, holding on tight as they swerved in and out between cars on the three-lane motorway leading to Ekeberg tunnel. 'Self-taught,' Beate said. -- Jo Nesbo
Four years later, after Mathias had killed a further four women, and he could see that all the murders were an attempt to reconstruct the murder of his mother, he concluded that he was mad. -- Jo Nesbo
This man, commenting on the attack at Dennis Kebab, says we need more racists like Sverre Olsen to regain control of Norway. In the interview the word "racist" is used as a term of respect. Does the accused consider himself a "racist"? -- Jo Nesbo
Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates. -- Jo Nesbo
Well, religion was like fire insurance; you never really thought you'd need it, so when people said that the boy was prepared to take your sins upon himself and didn't want anything in return, why not say yes to some peace of mind? -- Jo Nesbo
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. -- 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 are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains? -- Jo Nesbo
The fog was back. It seeped in through the streets, from the cracks around the closed windows behind the trees in the avenue, out of the blue door which opened after they had heard Weber's abrupt bark over the intercom, and out through the keyholes in the doors they passed on the way upstairs. -- 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 some of the energy. You can have eternal life. It's true!
- Runa Molnes -- Jo Nesbo
He saw beauty where no one could imagine it. And for that reason it was his alone. And he was its. -- Jo Nesbo
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime -- Jo Nesbo
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores. -- Jo Nesbo
Never apologise for the questions you asked; apologise for the ones you didn't ask.' The -- Jo Nesbo
I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again. -- Jo Nesbo
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. -- Jo Nesbo
All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel. -- Jo Nesbo
Catharsis. Revenge cleanses. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. It's a frightening thought that we fulfil the soul's innermost desire through the tragedy of revenge, isn't it. -- Jo Nesbo
A charming arsehole, isn't that what they're called? -- Jo Nesbo
longevity bestowed respect, even upon a whorehouse madam if she kept going for long enough. -- Jo Nesbo
That was what life was: a process of destruction, a disintegration from what at the outset was perfect. The only suspense involved was whether we would be destroyed in one sudden act or slowly. -- Jo Nesbo
But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can't be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life. -- Jo Nesbo
How much do you know about noctambulism - in other words, sleepwalking?" "I know that people can walk in their sleep. Talk in their sleep. Eat, get dressed and even go out and drive a car in their sleep. -- Jo Nesbo
The statistical probability of being murdered in Norway was about one in ten thousand. When -- Jo Nesbo
The goddess Nemesis, Bertol Grimmer's favourite motif after the War. The goddess of revenge. -- Jo Nesbo
Incomprehensible, his colleagues tended to say when they discovered young people who had chosen to take their own lives. Harry assumed they said that to protect themselves, to reject the whole idea of it. If not, he didn't understand what they meant by its being incomprehensible. -- Jo Nesbo
In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It's bullshit! Human nature is a vast impenetrable forest which no one can know in its entirety. Not even a mother knows her child's deepest secrets. -- Jo Nesbo
She had got it into her head that we, her little family, would go on camping trips. Cook freshly caught trout beside a lake where the sun never set. I hope she got there with her drinking. -- Jo Nesbo
Life owes you, but sometimes you have to be your own fucking debt collector. And if we have to burn in hell for it, heaven's going to be sparsely populated. -- Jo Nesbo
Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience. -- Jo Nesbo
There's only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire. -- Jo Nesbo
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. -- Jo Nesbo
Harry could feel his earlobes getting hot. How could this gay clown make him, a fully grown man, so embarrassed that he looked like a Brit after six hours on a Spanish beach? -- Jo Nesbo
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. -- Jo Nesbo
Then two identical Cadillac Fleetwoods (special Secret Service cars flown in from the US) and the President sitting in one of them. Which one was kept secret. Or perhaps he was sitting in both, Harry thought. One for Jekyll and one for Hyde. -- Jo Nesbo
Fate. Hell and karma. It's what governs our lives. -- Jo Nesbo
Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily absorbing the nicotine. Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction. -- Jo Nesbo
No, of love. It's the same currency. Everything starts with love. Hatred is just the other side of the coin. -- Jo Nesbo
You sound like someone who thinks he has to fight the whole world," Joseph said. "But if you don't drop your guard now and then, your arms will be too weary to fight. -- Jo Nesbo
There were those who asserted that sons always became, to some degree or other, disguised variants of their fathers, that the experience of breaking out was never more than an illusion; you returned; the gravity of blood was not only stronger than your willpower, it was your willpower. -- Jo Nesbo
I just know that when I'm walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I'm terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that I was already in the water. -- Jo Nesbo
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. -- Jo Nesbo
Harry had underrated intuition before, both other people's and his own, and it had been to his cost every time without exception. -- Jo Nesbo
We don't punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn't heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd. -- Jo Nesbo
Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks. -- Jo Nesbo
A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him. -- Jo Nesbo
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood. -- Jo Nesbo
Suddenly he realised why so many of the inmates went to the young man to talk. It was the silence. The beckoning vacuum of someone who simply listens without reaction or judgement. Who extracts your words and your secrets from you without doing anything at all. -- Jo Nesbo
A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. -- Jo Nesbo
Beauty trumps everything. -- Jo Nesbo
Christ, we're living in Sydney, the only town in the world where people are closet heteros. -- Jo Nesbo
Reason lives in the head, and faith in the heart. They're not always good neighbours. -- Jo Nesbo
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. -- Jo Nesbo
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led. -- Jo Nesbo
The best brothels in Bangkok seem to have a weakness for Greek names,' [Liz] commented acidly and got out. Harry looked up at a large neon sign proclaiming that the motel was called Olympussy. -- Jo Nesbo
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures. -- Jo Nesbo
Watching TV gives you confidence. When you see how stupid people generally are on the box it makes you feel smart. And scientific studies show that people who feel smart perform better than people who feel stupid. -- Jo Nesbo
If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die? -- Jo Nesbo
A personality disorder doesn't mean he is stupid. Sufferers are just as good, frequently better, at achieving their aims. What distinguishes them from us is that they want different things. -- Jo Nesbo
The door here is high, and the gate is wide. -- Jo Nesbo
There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain. -- 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
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read. -- Jo Nesbo
It's strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for yourself. -- Jo Nesbo
Good police officers are ugly.' * -- Jo Nesbo
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. -- Jo Nesbo
I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that. -- Jo Nesbo
My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need to lie, and then it might be handy if you think I'm honest. -- Jo Nesbo
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller. -- Jo Nesbo
In a nutshell, Harry, they're two sides of the same coin. Life becomes a living hell, but the alternative is even worse. Ha -- Jo Nesbo
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. -- Jo Nesbo
The United States of America is more than just an ally,' Brandhaug began with an imperceptible smile. He said it with the same intonation that you use to explain to a non-Norwegian that Norway has a king and that the capital is Oslo. -- Jo Nesbo
I'm thinking about how lucky I am," he said. "Because I have you. Because I have -- Jo Nesbo
Would you kill someone to have the right of disposal over fifty million kroner for six years?" "Depends on who I had to kill," Liz said. "I know a couple of people I would murder for less." "I mean: is fifty million kroner for six years the same as five million for sixty years? -- 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
They had once sworn to tell each other everything, absolutely everything, and after they had done that, after they had tested how much truth the other could tolerate, their stories had become the walls and the roof that held their home together. -- Jo Nesbo
you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day. -- Jo Nesbo
that it was impossible to get rid of it without -- 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 symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed. -- Jo Nesbo
Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean. -- Jo Nesbo
It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling for the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilization -- Jo Nesbo
On page six his eyes fell on a large photograph of a wooden road sign with a sun cross painted on. Oslo 2,611 km, it said on one arm, Leningrad 5 km on the other. The article beneath was credited to Even -- Jo Nesbo
After the show the bar began to thin out. Birgitta -- Jo Nesbo
Had they sensed that there were ghosts? That despite it being brand new and unspoilt, and despite no one having died in a car accident or a plane crash yet, there were ghosts. -- Jo Nesbo
Smoking's banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body, he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer. -- Jo Nesbo
Rikshospital. He was in the rhythm now. Time was not chopped up by events; it flowed in an even stream. -- Jo Nesbo
The brain works best between half past six and eleven. After that it's mush, -- Jo Nesbo
We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness. -- Jo Nesbo
And, according to that Hume guy, the fact that I had until now woken up every morning in the same body, into the same world, where what had happened had actually happened, was no guarantee that the same thing would happen again tomorrow morning. -- Jo Nesbo
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction. -- Jo Nesbo
We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are. -- Jo Nesbo
They say that life expectancy is higher for right-handed people than for left-handed. -- Jo Nesbo
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die. -- Jo Nesbo
He downed the rest of his drink and poured himself another from the bottle of whisky room service had brought up: Jameson. The only good thing ever to come out of Ireland. -- Jo Nesbo
To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside -- Jo Nesbo
A tone can't be off-key. A tone isn't off- key until it is set alongside other tones. - Harry Hole -- Jo Nesbo
Fourteen minutes later he had finished. He had presented the -- Jo Nesbo
Revenge is a frequent motive in suicides, you know. They feel it is someone's fault their lives have been unsuccessful, and they want to inflict this guilt on others by committing suicide. -- Jo Nesbo
He looked as if he was trying to set a new world record in being bored. -- 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 were the loneliest Harry had ever heard. -- Jo Nesbo
It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason. -- Jo Nesbo
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time. -- Jo Nesbo
Ceri loves Sci-Fi - " Game of Thrones "
also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana, -- Jo Nesbo
frightening? Vigdis A. panted -- Jo Nesbo
I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much. -- Jo Nesbo
TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev. -- Jo Nesbo
I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms ... I can write anywhere. -- Jo Nesbo
Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults -- Jo Nesbo
If every baby was a perfect miracle, life was basically a process of degeneration. -- Jo Nesbo
When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt -- Jo Nesbo
than those we arrested here -- Jo Nesbo
Simon closed his eyes again. He nodded slowly. "So we're slaves to love. And who we're given to love, that's a lottery too. Is that what you're saying?" "It's brutal, but that's how it is," Sissel declared. "And the gods laugh," Simon said. -- Jo Nesbo
Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death. -- Jo Nesbo
They let the enemy build mosques in our midst, let them rob our old folk and mingle blood with our women. It is no more than our duty as Norwegians to protect our race and to eliminate those who fail us. -- Jo Nesbo
case in California about a senator who - ' Harry -- Jo Nesbo
Sharing secrets binds people together though," Harry whispered into her hair. "And that's not always what people want. -- Jo Nesbo
Most of the water, however, did not run into the wall, but down it, because water, like cowardice and lust, always finds the lowest level. -- Jo Nesbo
A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others. -- Jo Nesbo
Don't forget that in Thailand you're brought up never to admit a mistake. -- Jo Nesbo
Somehow it felt like everything was missing, and asphalt and the bridge and railway line. He came to the end of the road and then everything turned into nothingness. It's over. How he just hated that word. -- Jo Nesbo
there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood. -- Jo Nesbo
Because they drive on the left in China, -- Jo Nesbo
He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. -- Jo Nesbo
We all drink according to how thirsty we are'. -- Jo Nesbo
Love's the sum total of all the little things you can never really put your finger on. Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops but you get warm. -- Jo Nesbo
Sometimes we're wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents. -- Jo Nesbo
Had kicked the chair away from underneath him. That's why he clawed his own neck -- Jo Nesbo
The social space between people who don't know each other is form one to three and a half metres. - Beate Lonne -- Jo Nesbo
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. -- Jo Nesbo
People change. The person you long for may no longer exist. Bloody hell, we all change, don't we. Once something has been experienced, it's too late, you can't get back the feeling of experiencing the same thing for the first time. -- Jo Nesbo
to join a red puddle on the stairs. Her arms were pulled up above her lolling head. Her wrists -- Jo Nesbo
Where are we going now?" Harry asked. "To the circus! I promised a friend I would pop by one day. And today is one day, isn't it. -- Jo Nesbo
Listen, I am someone who had chosen to earn their daily bread killing other people. I'm inclined to give people a bit of leeway when it comes to their actions and decisions. -- Jo Nesbo
Doubt is faith's shadow. -- Jo Nesbo
The bat is the Aboriginal symbol of death. Did you know that? Harry did not. -- Jo Nesbo
Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality. -- Jo Nesbo
. . we know . . . we . . . uh, what was that again? -- Jo Nesbo
The human soul was a deep, dark forest and all decisions are made alone. -- Jo Nesbo
You also live in Holmenkollen?' 'Close by. Or quite close by. Bislett. -- Jo Nesbo
Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself. -- Jo Nesbo
Don't, he thought. Don't let it happen. Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. Harry -- Jo Nesbo
Oh, yes, they're still angry. At Third World aid, cuts in the defence budget, women priests, marriages for homosexuals, our new countrymen, all the things you would guess would upset these old boys. In their hearts they're still fascists. -- Jo Nesbo
What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain. -- Jo Nesbo
Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. -- Jo Nesbo
Revenge, revenge, revenge. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practise revenge? The interesting thing about revenge - -- Jo Nesbo
What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go? -- Jo Nesbo
a man does not become the leader of a flock through brute strength but through his ability to read situations correctly. -- Jo Nesbo
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants. -- Jo Nesbo
To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Jo Nesbo
Otto would have sold his mother for a piece of my arse of course, but even at a young age I felt a strange attraction to girls and all those awful hetero things. -- Jo Nesbo
Should a person be punished for showing no consideration towards an idiot behaving like an idiot? -- Jo Nesbo
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books. -- Jo Nesbo
Crime Squad would have been great if it weren't for the murders. Murders were shit. Murders meant long hours, writing reports, endless meetings and loads of stressed-out people. But at least they got free food from the cafeteria when they worked overtime. -- Jo Nesbo
If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous. -- Jo Nesbo
already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well. -- Jo Nesbo
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually. -- Jo Nesbo
What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed to put a name to yet. -- Jo Nesbo
They're so rich and revered that they have neither electricity nor running water. Only social climbers have a sauna and a Jacuzzi. -- Jo Nesbo
Love is a greater mystery than death. -- Jo Nesbo
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. -- Jo Nesbo
Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen. -- Jo Nesbo
Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament. -- Jo Nesbo
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling. -- Jo Nesbo
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. -- Jo Nesbo
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea. -- Jo Nesbo
Because we're the police,' Harry said. 'And not giggling concubines. -- Jo Nesbo
The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold. -- Jo Nesbo
There's a strong social urge in man to be needed. -- Jo Nesbo
Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having. -- Jo Nesbo
We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. -- Jo Nesbo
The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not. -- Jo Nesbo
I'm working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.' 'Hasn't someone already written that one? -- Jo Nesbo
We're probably more like our parents than we'd like to believe. -- Jo Nesbo
In any conflict we instinctively take the side of those who look most like us. -- Jo Nesbo
I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late. -- Jo Nesbo
He considered what he should do with the rest of his life. And he considered whether you ever found out if you had made the right decisions while you were still alive. It -- Jo Nesbo
Many people spend their whole lives somewhere they don't want to be out of fear that the alternative is worse. -- Jo Nesbo
For justice is a blunt knife, both as a philosophy and as a judge. -- Jo Nesbo
Yeah, but I guess sometimes it's easier to take responsibility for the dead instead of the living. The rest of us have to look after them, Harry. The living. After all, that's the responsibility that drives us. -- Jo Nesbo