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1. "I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson." ~ Jo Nesbo

2. "Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction." ~ Jo Nesbo

3. "For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!" ~ Jo Nesbo

4. "Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores." ~ Jo Nesbo

5. "For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle." ~ Jo Nesbo

6. "I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect." ~ Jo Nesbo

7. "The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway." ~ Jo Nesbo

8. "All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel." ~ Jo Nesbo

9. "As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last." ~ Jo Nesbo

10. "Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel." ~ Jo Nesbo

11. "At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker." ~ Jo Nesbo

12. "Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge." ~ Jo Nesbo

13. "What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed to put a name to yet." ~ Jo Nesbø

14. "Ceri loves Sci-Fi - " Game of Thrones "also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana," ~ Jo Nesbø

15. "Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime" ~ Jo Nesbø

16. "But everything good in this shit world is either by prescription, sold out, or so expensive you have to sell your soul to taste it. Life is a restaurant you can't afford. Death the bill for the food you didn't even have a chance to eat. So you order the most expensive thing on the menu - you're in for it anyway, right? - and if you're lucky, you get a mouthful." ~ Jo Nesbø

17. "Love is a greater mystery than death." ~ Jo Nesbø

18. "[Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.[Harry] At least until you land.[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being." ~ Jo Nesbø

19. "— Police officer, are you? — ??????? ???????? ?????? ?? ???? ? ???????? ????????? ?? ????. — ???????, ? ??? ?? ????? ?????-?????? ?????????? ?????????. — ??? ?????? ??????????? ? ????????? ?? ???? ?????.— Well, just one,— ??????? ????? ????." ~ Jo Nesbø

20. "Life owes you, but sometimes you have to be your own fucking debt collector. And if we have to burn in hell for it, heaven's going to be sparsely populated." ~ Jo Nesbø

21. "was going to drown. Woo had attached him to the drain at the bottom of the pool with his own handcuffs. He looked up. The moon was shining down on him through a filter of water. He stretched his free arm up and out of the water. Hell, the pool was only one meter deep here! Harry crouched and tried to stand up, stretched with all his might. The handcuff cut into his thumb, but still his mouth was twenty centimeters below the surface. He noticed the shadow at the edge of the pool moving away. Shit! Don't panic, he thought. Panic uses up oxygen. He sank to the bottom and examined the grille with his fingers. It was made of steel and was totally immovable, it didn't budge even when he grabbed it with both hands and pulled. How long could he hold his breath? One minute? Two? All his muscles ached, his temples throbbed and red stars were dancing in front of his eyes. He tried to jerk himself loose. His mouth was dry with fear, his brain had started producing" ~ Jo Nesbø

22. "A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it." ~ Jo Nesbø

23. "Watching TV gives you confidence. When you see how stupid people generally are on the box it makes you feel smart. And scientific studies show that people who feel smart perform better than people who feel stupid." ~ Jo Nesbø

24. "Tas, kurš uzvar kara, ne vienmer ir uzvaretajs." ~ Jo Nesbø

25. "Ja runa ir par varu, sievietes nav tik godkarigas ka virieši. Vinam nav nepieciešama redzama vara. Pilnigi pietiek ar tadu, kas sniedz visu, ko vinas velas. Drošibu. Edienu. Baudu. Atriebibu. Mieru. Sieviete ir ta racionala, planojoša valdniece, kas nedoma tikai par kauju vai uzvaras svinibam. Ta ka speja saredzet sava upura vajas vietas vinai ir iedzimta, vina instinktivi zina, kad un kur jaizdara trieciens. Un kad labak japaliek mala." ~ Jo Nesbø

26. "Otto would have sold his mother for a piece of my arse of course, but even at a young age I felt a strange attraction to girls and all those awful hetero things." ~ Jo Nesbø

27. "Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction. Ignoring the warning on the cigarette packet might not be the most flamboyant act of rebellion a man could allow himself, but at least it was one he could afford." ~ Jo Nesbø

28. "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself." ~ Jo Nesbø

29. "Smoking's banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body," he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer." ~ Jo Nesbø

30. "He who is destined for the gallows will not drown, as we say in Norwegian," Harry said. "What?" "I agree." ~ Jo Nesbø

31. "We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness." ~ Jo Nesbø

32. "Ja tu nekontrole notikumus, tie kontroles tevi." ~ Jo Nesbø

33. "Atriebiba ir domajoša cilveka reflekss, sarežgits ricibas un seku kopums, kas nepiemit nevienai citai dzivai butnei." ~ Jo Nesbø

34. "Jo launakais, ko var nodarit cilvekam, ir atnemt vinam to, ka del vinš dzivo." ~ Jo Nesbø

35. "We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are." ~ Jo Nesbø

36. "Perhaps it's just that people, wherever they live on the globe, somehow share the same visions or fantasies. It's in our nature, wired into the hard drive, so to speak. Despite all the differences, sooner or later, we still come up with the same answers. - Harry Hole" ~ Jo Nesbø

37. "Ja. Es ist wirklich möglich Dinge hinter sich zu lassen, Rakel. Es kommt bei diesen Gespenstern darauf an, sie lange und intensiv genug anzuschauen, damit man erkennt, dass es bloß Gespenster sind. Das ist die Kunst. Tote, ohnmächtige Trugbilder." ~ Jo Nesbø

38. "Jon tinha lágrimas nos olhos. E num momento de vulnerabilidade, Harry não pôde sentir outra coisa senão compaixão. Não a mesma compaixão que sentia pelas vítimas ou pelos parentes mais próximos destas, mas por aquelas pessoas, que num momento dilacerante reconhecem a sua própria miserável humanidade." ~ Jo Nesbø

39. "A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom" ~ Jo Nesbø

40. "To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside" ~ Jo Nesbø

41. ". 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." ~ Jo Nesbø

42. "Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality." ~ Jo Nesbø

43. "Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived." ~ Jo Nesbø

44. "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." ~ Jo Nesbø

45. "Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed." ~ Jo Nesbø

46. "They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes." ~ Jo Nesbø

47. "What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted for the Socialist Party because it made it a human right to shirk their jobs, and who the hell wouldn't vote for a party that gave you three days off without a doctor's note, gave you carte blanche to sit at home and jerk off or go skiing or recover from a hangover? The Socialist Party knew, of course, what a perk this was, but still tried to appear responsible, preened themselves with their "trust in most people" and declared the right to malinger as some kind of social reform. The Progress Party was even more fucking infuriating, buying itself votes with tax cuts and hardly bothering to conceal the fact." ~ Jo Nesbø

48. "Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think i could ever do that." ~ Jo Nesbø

49. "Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?" ~ Jo Nesbø

50. "...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard." ~ Jo Nesbø

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