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The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7) QUOTES

The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7) QUOTES

1 " And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?
The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

2 " Perhaps that was a thing about attractive women: A rejection demanded their respect, made them trust you more. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

3 " 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? "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

4 " Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma? "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

5 " Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

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

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

7 " in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

8 " Good stories are never about a string of successes but about spectacular defeats,” Støp had said. “Even though Roald Amundsen won the race to the South Pole, it’s Robert Scott the world outside Norway remembers. None of Napoleon’s victories is remembered like the defeat at Waterloo. Serbia’s national pride is based on the battle against the Turks at Kosovo Polje in 1389, a battle the Serbs lost resoundingly. And look at Jesus! The symbol of the man who is claimed to have triumphed over death ought to be a man standing outside the tomb with his hands in the air. Instead, throughout time Christians have preferred the spectacular defeat: when he was hanging on the cross and close to giving up. Because it’s always the story of the defeat that moves us most. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

9 " I´ve read that it´s the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

10 " Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It’s the opposite; it’s a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

11 " Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don’t resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won’t be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don’t let it collect until the wall develops cracks. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

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

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

13 " Pain is a good thing; we would never survive without it. We should be grateful for pain. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

14 " We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

15 " if every baby was a perfect miracle, life was basically a process of degeneration. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

16 " For justice is a blunt knife, both as a philosophy and as a judge. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

17 " Jedes Baby war bei der Geburt ein perfektes Wunder, und das Leben im Grunde nur ein fortlaufender Zerstoerungsprozess. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

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

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

19 " The more aged I become, the more I tend to the view that evil is evil, mental illness or no. We’re all more or less disposed to evil actions, but our disposition cannot exonerate us. For heaven’s sake, we’re all sick with personality disorders. And it’s our actions that define how sick we are. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

20 " When the tough nuts crack, they crack in style. "

― Jo Nesbø , The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)