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The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.

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

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt

Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death.

Because we're the police,' Harry said. 'And not giggling concubines.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well.

He saw beauty where no one could imagine it. And for that reason it was his alone. And he was its.

Fate. Hell and karma. It's what governs our lives.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

We all drink according to how thirsty we are'.

Should a person be punished for showing no consideration towards an idiot behaving like an idiot?

Never apologise for the questions you asked; apologise for the ones you didn't ask.' The

The door here is high, and the gate is wide.

What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed to put a name to yet.

As usual, he had escaped into his work when his private life became too much of a burden. It was typical of a certain type of man, he had read.

you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day.

Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Fourteen minutes later he had finished. He had presented the

There's a strong social urge in man to be needed.

A tone can't be off-key. A tone isn't off- key until it is set alongside other tones. - Harry Hole

Threats generally work best when delivered in a neutral key.

After the show the bar began to thin out. Birgitta

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

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

Love is a greater mystery than death.

The social space between people who don't know each other is form one to three and a half metres. - Beate Lonne

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

there were gods who needed to be worshipped and placated, and the currency for that was blood.

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

He feels a need to be understood. Most people do, you know.

frightening? Vigdis A. panted

Revenge, revenge, revenge. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practise revenge? The interesting thing about revenge -

In a nutshell, Harry, they're two sides of the same coin. Life becomes a living hell, but the alternative is even worse. Ha

The statistical probability of being murdered in Norway was about one in ten thousand. When

The goddess Nemesis, Bertol Grimmer's favourite motif after the War. The goddess of revenge.

Most of the water, however, did not run into the wall, but down it, because water, like cowardice and lust, always finds the lowest level.

There's only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

You also live in Holmenkollen?' 'Close by. Or quite close by. Bislett.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Had kicked the chair away from underneath him. That's why he clawed his own neck

Good police officers are ugly.' *

Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.

If every baby was a perfect miracle, life was basically a process of degeneration.

Harry had underrated intuition before, both other people's and his own, and it had been to his cost every time without exception.

Sometimes we're wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents.

A charming arsehole, isn't that what they're called?

to join a red puddle on the stairs. Her arms were pulled up above her lolling head. Her wrists

There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain.

Ceri loves Sci-Fi - " Game of Thrones "
also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana,

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

that it was impossible to get rid of it without

a man does not become the leader of a flock through brute strength but through his ability to read situations correctly.

Rikshospital. He was in the rhythm now. Time was not chopped up by events; it flowed in an even stream.

case in California about a senator who - ' Harry

A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

The human soul was a deep, dark forest and all decisions are made alone.

Innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.

I'm thinking about how lucky I am," he said. "Because I have you. Because I have

Doubt is faith's shadow.

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 yourself.

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

No, of love. It's the same currency. Everything starts with love. Hatred is just the other side of the coin.

In any conflict we instinctively take the side of those who look most like us.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

They say that life expectancy is higher for right-handed people than for left-handed.

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

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

Don't forget that in Thailand you're brought up never to admit a mistake.

We're probably more like our parents than we'd like to believe.

Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance.

Because they drive on the left in China,

than those we arrested here

Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen.

The brain works best between half past six and eleven. After that it's mush,

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die?

A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom

Christ, we're living in Sydney, the only town in the world where people are closet heteros.

. . we know . . . we . . . uh, what was that again?

Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes.

I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late.

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

You can't see a person more nakedly than that, when they don't know they're being watched, studied.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

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

Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having.

Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?

They're so rich and revered that they have neither electricity nor running water. Only social climbers have a sauna and a Jacuzzi.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.