Killing Moon Quotes

“He who is born to be hanged will never drown?”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“She had managed not to laugh but also to get him to agree to a rectangular luxury bed one eighty metres wide by two metres ten long. Enough for two. Too much for one.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“Especially men. They take away your freedom. Or rather, they don't take it, you bloody well give it away like a wuss, as if you're programmed to. And freedom is worth more than men.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herself. P104”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we stop believing that we can be loved unconditionally just for being who we are?’ P10”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“That he needs you. We need something to live for, I said to him. And sometimes something to die for.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“the lonely men with their half-litres of beer as sole company and collocutor.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“Suffering from dementia must have its advantages”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“Niente era cambiato. Tutto era cambiato. Non c'era modo di tornare indietro. E non c'era nemmeno modo di non tornare indietro.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“The War on Drugs”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“I’m quite proud of what I’ve accomplished. I think even my uncle will be when he reads about it—if he”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon

“We’re drawn – some of us, at least – towards the edge of the precipice. They say it’s because the closeness to death intensifies the feeling of being alive. But fuck it, I don’t know.”
― Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon