174 Quotes by Jo Nesbø

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?

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.

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?

A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the table and was about to launch it at the wall, but changed his mind at the last moment. Lifelong training in self-control, he thought, opening the bottle and putting it to his mouth.

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.

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 unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.

. 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.

Tutti abbiamo bisogno di sentire che c'è qualcuno per noi, e che ci siamo per qualcuno.