The Keeper of Lost Causes Quotes

“But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl closed his eyes and tried to recall a couple of significant moments in his life. After a few seconds of nothingness, he opened them again.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Who would kill the one person who made life worth living?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Mercy

“It would be hard to find a more evil villain than Carl Mørck in a spaghetti Western.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Alles in allem ein richtiger Scheißtag.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl responding to something Camilla did, "The next time you touch my equipment, I'm going to puncture your silicon boobs and then claim it happened because you resisted arrest after threatening to slug me with one of your brother's trophies. When I slap the cuffs on you, and you're waiting for the doctor as you stare at the blank white wall of a prison cell in Hillerod, you'll dream about taking back that pat you just gave me. Shall we proceed, or do do have anything to add regarding my nobler parts?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory.

Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's the good stable arseholes like us who are remembered best.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis?

Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle in my eye is reserved for my husband and children, When are you going to accept that?

Carl: I'll accept it the day the light vanishes and eternal darkness swallows me up along with the rest of the earth.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“I drive a taxi and a car and a truck and a T-55 tank and also a T-62 and armored cars and the motorcycles with and without sidecars.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. When”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“He’d probably been sitting like that for only ten minutes when his meditative state was interrupted by the sensation that all police detectives know only too well—what women call intuition. It was the turmoil of experience bubbling up in his subconscious. The feeling that a number of concrete events would inevitably lead to a specific result.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“took the stairs in three bounds and didn’t”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“She is really really so beautiful there,' said Assad.
Carl glanced at him. Apparently a woman's appearance was a particularly valuable factor in his assistant's world-view. But Carl agreed with him.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Morten Holland så på ham som om han hadde spist noe rart. «Er du sprø, Carl? Det der er eske 3965 fra år 2000. Jeg har hele kassen med hus og balkong og alt.» Han pekte på den øverste hyllen. Og så sannelig. Der sto hele huset i all sin plastprakt. «Har du noen andre jeg kan låne, da? Bare til i morgen kveld?» Morten så plutselig helt fortapt ut i ansiktet. Det hadde antagelig ikke gjort noen forskjell om Carl hadde spurt om å få gi ham et skikkelig ballespark.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“Det er nok av tid, minst tyve år til pensjonen, tenkte han og la et par edderkoppkabaler til.”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes

“So, I suppose you just have a sense of where it is. And you don’t have to be precise, is that it?”
“Allah is great. He has such wide shoulders.”
Carl stuck out his lower lip in a pout. Of course Allah did. What was he thinking, anyway?”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes