63 Quotes by Jonas Jonasson

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Julius applied the brakes just in time. The corpse fell forward and hit its forehead on an iron handle.‘That would have been really painful if the circumstances had been a little different,’ said Allan. ‘There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead,’ said Julius.

And now we shall each take a glass.’‘Sounds good, said Allan. ‘The sea air tires you out.’After the very first glass, Allan insisted on a change in the way the two men addressed each other. To say Yury Borisovich to Yury Borisovich every time he needed to attract Yury Borisovich’s attention just wasn’t practical in the long term.

He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.The hundred-year-old man set off in his pee-slippers (so called because men of an advanced age rarely pee further than their shoes), first through a park and then alongside an open field where a market was occasionally held in the otherwise quiet provincial town.

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.

Allan found it easier to say yes or no to something if he knew what he was saying yes or no to.

Cụ nghiệm thấy xung đột lớn và khó tin nhất trên Trái đất này là theo kiểu: "Mày ngu, không, anh ngu thì có, không, chính mày mới là đồ ngu.". Giải pháp thường là, Allan nói, cả hai cùng cưa một chai vodka với nhau rồi sau đó nhìn về tương lai.

If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must come along in your luggage.