The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden Quotes

“Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
– Unknown”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. Winnie-the-Pooh”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“The more I see of men, the more I like my dog. MADAME DE STAËL”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“It sure was an unjust world when certain people received an excess of certain things, while others got nothing.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“Present—that part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. AMBROSE BIERCE”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“The world went on revolving around its sun at the constant speed and with the inconstant temper it always had.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“George W. Bush in Washington decided that Nobel Peace Prize winner and ex-president Nelson Mandela could probably be taken off the U.S. list of terrorists).”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“All that’s left is the rest,”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“We all need someone to share our innermost thoughts with,”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“The overworked man was tired of everything, and he only kept going because he had long since forgotten that life could consist of anything else.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“have never once in my life seen a fanatic with a sense of humor. AMOS OZ”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“We’ll just change your name – I’m sure the assistant can’t tell one black from the next.’ Said the fourteen-year-old who looked twelve.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Bücher hatten einfach etwas Sympathisches, ihre bloße Existenz war erfreulich.”
― Jonas Jonasson, Analfabeten som kunde räkna

“Sometimes you know things you shouldn't, and sometimes it's the other way round.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“With the new antiterrorism laws, the government could call anyone a terrorist and lock him or her up for as long as they liked, for any reason they liked. Or for no reason at all.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Nombeko said that she was South African, and that she thought it sounded laborious to hate all Americans, given how many of them there were.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“Sometimes it’s impossible to do the right thing, Prime Minister. Just more or less wrong.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“The more I see of men, the more I like my dog.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Her mother took the bottle with a “thank you, dear girl,” unscrewed the lid, and began to dull the never-ending pain that came with the inability to give oneself or one’s child a future.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

“An exciting follow-up to this event was the many ups and downs when the most developed country in the world made such a mess of its own presidential election that it took several weeks for the Supreme Court to decide 5–4 that the candidate with the most votes had lost. With this, George W. Bush became the president of the United States, while Al Gore was reduced to an environmental agitator whom not even the anarchists in Stockholm paid much attention to. Incidentally, Bush later invaded Iraq in order to eliminate all the weapons Saddam Hussein didn’t have.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“President Hu Jintao didn’t know what a recycling center was (China’s climate goals weren’t quite on that level),”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Sweden has nuclear weapons?” Hu Jintao said in surprise. “No, Sweden doesn’t. But I do. And I’m in Sweden. So to say.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Cubism, on the other hand, could be allowed to remain, as long as it wasn’t fenced in by any rules.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“She considered herself to be living in a mercenary society where the rich just got richer, while she herself just got poorer because her father withheld her allowance as long as she refused to do what he and her mother said (such as to stop calling them capitalist pigs at breakfast every morning, for instance).”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Well, the fact was, said Celestine, that she had raised her voice a bit in her conversation with the cops, even if they were the ones who started it by saying “police” when they answered the phone. In a very provocative tone.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“You’re not angry at me because of this thing about the atomic bomb, then?” “Nah,” said Holger. “Such things happen.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Botha and his Reform church knew that the Truth could be read in the Bible, if one only read very carefully.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“have never once in my life seen a fanatic with a sense of humour. Amos Oz”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

“Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden