Knife (Harry Hole, #12) QUOTES

2 " But happiness is like heroin; once you’ve tasted it, once you’ve found out that happiness exists, you will never be entirely happy with an ordinary life without happiness again. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

4 " And we’re all stuck in our ways. Bed-hoppers, thieves, drunks, murderers. We repeat our sins and hope for forgiveness, from God, other people, ourselves. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

6 " and quoted Mark Greif, who had written an article in the New York Times saying that hipsters compensated for their lack of social and career achievements by trying to claim cultural superiority. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

8 " According to Professor Paul Mattiuzzi, most murderers fit into one of eight categories,’ Harry said. ‘One: chronically aggressive individuals. People with poor impulse control who get easily frustrated, who resent authority, who convince themselves that violence is a legitimate response, and who deep down enjoy finding a way to express their anger. This is the type where you can see it coming. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

10 " Why did he imagine that running was the opposite of drinking, that it was the antidote, when it merely gave him a different type of rush? But so what? It was a better rush. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

12 " They say that the human brain’s ability to recognise patterns is what distinguishes us from animals, that our automatic, never-ending search for patterns repeating is what allowed our intelligence to develop and made civilisation possible. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

14 " But happiness is like heroin; once you’ve tasted it, once you’ve found out that happiness exists, you will never be entirely happy with an ordinary life without happiness again. Because happiness is something more than mere satisfaction. Happiness isn’t natural. Happiness is a trembling, exceptional state; seconds, minutes, days that you know simply can’t last. And sorrow at its absence doesn’t come afterwards, but at the same time. Because with happiness comes the terrible insight that nothing can be the same again, that you are already missing what you have, you’re worrying about the withdrawal pangs, grief at the loss, cursing the awareness of what you are capable of feeling. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

16 " And—most memorably—when they were putting together the playlist of “songs that were at least forty years old by artists and bands from American states beginning with M. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

18 " On the shelves behind him—between The Rainmakers’ first album and Rank and File’s debut—he had both Ramones and his favourite, Rocket to Russia. Harry pulled the black vinyl disc out and put Road to Ruin on the turntable. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)

20 " While he was driving he had realised why he had left the knife between The Rainmakers and the Ramones. Simple. Rakel. "

― Jo Nesbø , Knife (Harry Hole, #12)