Headhunters Quotes

“When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.”
― Jo Nesbo, Headhunters

“An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes.”
― Jo Nesbo, Headhunters

“that it was impossible to get rid of it without”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“It’s the fear, not the pain, that makes you malleable.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“We all drink according to how thirsty we are.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with the shortest working hours in the world, the biggest health budget and the highest proportion of sick leave.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“Translator, I had thought. She preferred other people’s stories to her own.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“beginning by questioning the suspect about his family.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“the fundamental pillar in constructing a reputation is exclusivity. Applying for jobs at random undermines exclusivity”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“I wanted to sleep. I wanted to dream. I wanted to escape. And wake up having forgotten everything. For that was of course the most important reason for not saying anything to her. As long as things remained unsaid, there was still a chance that we could forget. That we could sleep and dream in such a way that when we awoke it had disappeared, become something abstract, scenes from something that only took place in our heads, on the same level as those treacherous thoughts and fantasies that are the daily infidelity in every – even the most all-consuming – loving relationship.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters

“We all drink according to how thirsty we are’.”
― Jo Nesbø, Headhunters