23 Quotes by Karin Fossum

Do you know Oslo well?” Sejer asked, surprised. “I drove a taxi there for two years.” “Is there anything you haven’t done?” “I’ve never done any skydiving.

Now while it’s hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it’s on my own wall, perhaps it will be different – once it’s here all the time, every time I lift my eyes... when I come into the living room in the morning and in the evening... Will it make me happy? Yes, a voice inside him said, it will make you happy.

How can you know you’re a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community – the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don’t know what it would be like.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That’s where my heart lies.