“Losing your ife is not the worst think that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Rightly or wrongly, he used the level of chaos in his flat, as a thermometer for the state of his life.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“if life is such a painful experience and we can’t change that, why can’t this person just be allowed to die?” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Such is the end of the evil-doer: the death of a sinner always reflects his life.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“At least until you land.’ ‘I’ve come to realise that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Life owes you, but sometimes you have to be your own fucking debt collector. And if we have to burn in hell… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“That was what life was: a process of destruction, a disintegration from what at the outset was perfect. The only suspense involved… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction. Ignoring the warning… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“He designed churches. Because he was good at it, he said, not because he believed in the existence of any gods. It… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“The second sort was waking up alone. That was characterised by an awareness that he was alone in bed, alone in life,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“So I punished myself instead. I gave myself the worst punishment I could think of: I decided to live and I decided… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his chin. “Then you have to believe that living as a Christian is in itself good. That renunciation, not succumbing… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“He who is destined for the gallows will not drown, as we say in Norwegian,” Harry said. “What?” “I agree.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“That morality—which some people imagine is God-given and eternal—is as malleable and learned as our ideas of beauty, our enemies, our fashion trends.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“I just know that when I’m walking on the wafer-thin ice of happiness, I’m terrified, so terrified that I wish it was over, that… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“longevity bestowed respect, even upon a whorehouse madam if she kept going for long enough.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the table and… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need to lie,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
“The social space between people who don’t know each other is from one to three and a half metres. That’s the distance you would… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share
