"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."
- Jo Nesbø
"And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me."
"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 overquali..."
"You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn."
"Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people," Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time."
"With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge...."
"Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more."
"A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom"
"No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. We’re simple souls like that, aren’t we?"
"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 symptom..."