The Jealousy Man and Other Stories Quotes

“I am a man of limited intellect but limitless curiosity. It is, unfortunately, a frustrating combination.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“Oscar. Sujeté la manga de la blazer en una mano”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“que mueve el capote en un ángulo cerrado”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“Palle fumaba tanto que era seguro”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“Helena. —Estamos bien los dos, cariño, la escalada nos ha llevado algo más de tiempo del previsto. —Una pausa.”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“largarse. He hablado con la mujer. Dice que sobrevivirá. Se secó una lágrima, le pasé el brazo por los hombros y la acerqué a mí. —Tengo miedo —hipó. —Lo entiendo,”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“jugar con los dos hijos de Larsen. Pisoteaban por el área de las minas y los disparadores automáticos, pero no había peligro, todo estaba desactivado desde la sala de control.”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“protegieran el derecho a la propiedad, o al”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“tenían una característica definitiva”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“recordaron a números de teléfono. Y ahora que estaba a salvo, sintió algo aún más extraño.”
― Jo Nesbø, El hombre celoso

“I don’t think it’s fear we become addicted to but control. The feeling of mastering danger, mastering our own fate. Of exerting a control we don’t have over the rest of our lives. We are slightly heroic because we don’t make mistakes in critical situations.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

“writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.)”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“(Odd Rimmen’s theory was that writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.)”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream into my fingers – that’s a ladies’ cosmetic first produced in the 1930s, but as I and hundreds of other climbers had discovered, it was much better for rebuilding new skin than any patented climbers’ cream.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“From childhood onwards I have had a striking ability to become deeply engaged in stories.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“The murder rate in Greece is low. So low that a lot of people wonder how it’s possible in a crisis-ridden country with high unemployment, corruption and social unrest. The smart answer is that rather than kill someone they hate, Greeks allow the victim to go on living in Greece.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man

“Girard’s theory is that beyond satisfying our basic needs we don’t know what it is we want. So we mimic our surroundings, we value what other people value.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Jealousy Man