Jo Nesbø

“You are as old as you feel. So I reckon I'm about sixty.”

— Jo Nesbø

“It’s strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him…

— Jo Nesbø

“The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.”

— Jo Nesbø

“He who is destined for the gallows will not drown, as we say in Norwegian,” Harry said. “What?” “I agree.”

— Jo Nesbø

“He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl…

— Jo Nesbø

“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…

— Jo Nesbø

“He who is destined for the gallows will not drown,”

— Jo Nesbø

“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…

— Jo Nesbø

“longevity bestowed respect, even upon a whorehouse madam if she kept going for long enough.”

— Jo Nesbø

“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune”

— Jo Nesbø

“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the…

— Jo Nesbø

“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb”

— Jo Nesbø

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

— Jo Nesbø

“My honesty now is merely a long-term investment in my own plausibility. Because there may come a day when I really need…

— Jo Nesbø

“The social space between people who don’t know each other is from one to three and a half metres. That’s the distance…

— Jo Nesbø

“The second sort was waking up alone. That was characterised by an awareness that he was alone in bed, alone in life,…

— Jo Nesbø

“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?”

— Jo Nesbø

“There was a saying during the war: Those who decide late will always decide right. At Christmas in 1943 we could see…

— Jo Nesbø

“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

“Well,' the Divisional Commander said, 'one of our police inspectors has taken a possible serial killer from the custody block and nobody…

— Jo Nesbø

“Are you dying?" Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.”

— Jo Nesbø

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

— Jo Nesbø

“What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed…

— Jo Nesbø

“off that for a long time. I was an alcoholic before I was thirty. Perhaps before I was twenty, it depends on…

— Jo Nesbø

“Let me see … he needs to have some propofol.” “I’ve no idea what that is.” “It means he’ll sleep for a good while.”…

— Jo Nesbø