The Son Quotes

“Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can’t see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“You can discover new things by changing your perspective and your location”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can’t be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“We don’t punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn’t heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Suddenly he realised why so many of the inmates went to the young man to talk. It was the silence. The beckoning vacuum of someone who simply listens without reaction or judgement. Who extracts your words and your secrets from you without doing anything at all.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“A son’s responsibility isn’t to be like his father, but to be better than him.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“He smiled. And when the smile reached his eyes, it was as if an electric heater had been turned on. It was the kind of smile that softened stiff muscles and soothed hurt feelings. A smile someone suffering from compassion fatigue was sorely in need of.”
― Jo Nesbo, The Son

“you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go?”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“We’re probably more like our parents than we’d like to believe.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“They had once sworn to tell each other everything, absolutely everything, and after they had done that, after they had tested how much truth the other could tolerate, their stories had become the walls and the roof that held their home together.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“How … how do you know if someone loves you, Pelle?” “You just know. It’s the sum total of all the little things you can never really put your finger on. Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can’t see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.” Pelle laughed, embarrassed and almost a little proud at his own words.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Ne kažnjavamo mi druge zato što su zli, već zato što prave pogrešan izbor, izbor pogrešan za čopor. Moral nije ništa bogom dano ili večno, već samo skup pravila nužan za dobrobir čopora.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Sometimes we’re wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents. Perhaps they weren’t weak. Perhaps something happened to give you the wrong impression. What if they were strong? What if they were willing to leave behind a disgraced name, allow themselves to be stripped of all honour, take the blame, to save the ones they loved? And if they were that strong, perhaps you’re strong, too.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Pele, kako... Kako znaš da li te neko voli?"
"Ma naprosto znaš. To ti je zbir svih onih sitnica koje ne možeš da izdvojiš pojedinačno. Vidiš, ljubav ti je kao topao tuš. Ne vidiš pojedinače kapljice ali te one svejedno greju. Kvase. I čiste.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Sometimes we’re wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Love's the sum total of all the little things you can never really put your finger on. Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops but you get warm.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“I’m thinking about how lucky I am,” he said. “Because I have you. Because I have”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Well, religion was like fire insurance; you never really thought you’d need it, so when people said that the boy was prepared to take your sins upon himself and didn’t want anything in return, why not say yes to some peace of mind?”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Yngve Morsand —dijo el hombre estrechando la mano de Iver—. Le acompaño en el sentimiento. —Igualmente —respondió Iver Iversen. Entonces cayó en la cuenta de por qué le resultaba familiar. Era el armador, el marido de la mujer a quien le habían cortado”
― Jo Nesbø, El heredero

“Мы люди, когда грешим. Но мы боги, когда прощаем.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“A son’s responsibility isn’t to be like his father, but to better than him.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“It’s a well-known fact that good looks improve the career prospects of people with only average intelligence and ability. - Kari Adel”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“resist.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“It was so difficult to grasp. That people who had been around, furnished your life, could simply evaporate and you never saw them again. Except in dreams. The good dreams.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“That everything apart from death, everything he preached about, was nothing but a defence people had created against their fear of death. And yet none of what he used to believe meant anything at all. What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son

“Ali jedno je jasno: ako želiš da hodaš uspravno, rizikuješ da padneš pravo na nos!”
― Jo Nesbø, The Son