Jo Nesbø

“change of scene. A new start. And it worked.”

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“Friday is déjà vu day.”

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“Loneliness makes us men weak. - Wilhelm Barli”

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“As beautiful as an electric chair,”

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“Morality is flexible and utilitarian.”

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“overestimate men’s ability to interpret.”

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“She was what most people would call dead.”

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“Because they drive on the left in China,”

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“Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practice revenge ? - Ståle Aune”

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“Are you really so sure you can capture happiness with your master plan?”

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“I’m thinking about how lucky I am,” he said. “Because I have you. Because I have”

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“If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.”

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“We all drink according to how thirsty we are’.”

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“You can discover new things by changing your perspective and your location”

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“For justice is a blunt knife, both as a philosophy and as a judge.”

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“Never apologise for the questions you asked; apologise for the ones you didn’t ask.’ The”

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“Sharing secrets binds people together though,” Harry whispered into her hair. “And that’s not always what people want.”

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Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The…

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“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…

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“And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry? The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.”

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“Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more.”

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“Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.”

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“Harry shrugged. “I think it’s possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time…

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“That's what's so paradoxical. First of all, they take our people's pride, and when it's gone they're scared to death of treading…

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“most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with…

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“The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most…

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“Incomprehensible,” his colleagues tended to say when they discovered young people who had chosen to take their own lives. Harry assumed they…

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“Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to…

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“Crime Squad would have been great if it weren’t for the murders. Murders were shit. Murders meant long hours, writing reports, endless…

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“The word—flæsk—was articulated with Bergensian tones and gravity. That is, with a soft l, a long æ with a dip in the…

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“Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the…

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“And a soft spot for the somewhat anguished officer with big ears that stuck out from the close-cropped cranium like two colourful…

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“Harry sensed the onset of resignation. No, he bloody didn't! On the FBI course they had examined cases where it had taken…

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“TWO MINUTES LATER, two cud-chewing sheep raised their heads as a bike passed them on the road just outside their fence. “Did…

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“was going to drown. Woo had attached him to the drain at the bottom of the pool with his own handcuffs. He…

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“He rubbed his chin. “Then you have to believe that living as a Christian is in itself good. That renunciation, not succumbing…

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“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god.…

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“Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our…

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“Well, Espen, you're no drug addict, so why do you beg?" "Because it's my mission to be mirror for mankind so that…

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“What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted…

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