33 Quotes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Who would kill the one person who made life worth living?

This was what Ditlev loved: ceaseless gunfire, ceaseless killing, flapping specks in the sky terminated in an orgy of color. The slow drizzle of birds’ bodies falling from above. The eagerness of the men to reload their weapons.

Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you” it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people.

I drive a taxi and a car and a truck and a T-55 tank and also a T-62 and armored cars and the motorcycles with and without sidecars.

Rational emotions such as fear and anxiety occur primarily in those who love life, who believe in the future and the people they hold dear, and don’t want to lose any of these things. But when hatred takes over, love is forced aside, and with it, fear.