33 Quotes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis?Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle in my eye is reserved for my husband and children, When are you going to accept that?Carl: I'll accept it the day the light vanishes and eternal darkness swallows me up along with the rest of the earth.

He was struck by the realisation that people couldn't run from themselves, regardless of where they were. The feeling that you always carried the past with you, and that it was only yourself that could be held responsible for who you were.

When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.

He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.

How was it in any way possible to defend himself against the words of a dead man?

Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an expert would probably be able to determine the vintage.

Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today, because suddenly there are no tomorrows.