Caffeine Quote by Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“It was late in September and a little more than twenty degrees, so what the hell were people smiling for? They ought to be…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory. Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Alles in allem ein richtiger Scheißtag.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior news coverage…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Carl Mørck, am I disturbing you? said a voice at the door, which made his blood boil and turn to ice at the same…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“In tiny Denmark the system was so ingenious that if you knew some dirt about somebody, they also knew something just as bad about…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Assad ristet på hodet. «Du prøver ikke å treffe, Carl, du skal treffe. Gi meg pistolen.» Han grep uten videre pistolløpet og dro våpenet…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis? Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.”

— Jussi Adler-Olsen