The Devil's Star Quotes

“To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.”
― Jo Nesbo, The Devil's Star

“Most of the water, however, did not run into the wall, but down it, because water, like cowardice and lust, always finds the lowest level.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“...stereotypes were self-reinforcing because unconsciously you were looking for things to confirm them. That was why policemen thought – based on so-called experience – that all criminals were stupid, and criminals thought the same about all policemen.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Wilhelm’s smile reminded Harry of his father’s sad, resigned smile, the smile of a man looking backwards because that’s where the things that made him smile were.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“[Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.

[Harry] At least until you land.

[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Whose hart is more crippled, the heart that cannot stop loving or the one that is loved by cannot return that love? - Wilhelm Barli”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Good tragedies always have a little humour. - Wilhelm Barli”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“The sitting room shows how you want to present yourself. But in the kitchen everyone relaxes more. It's like you're allowed to be yourself. Did you notice that we relaxed with each other as soon as we came in? - Olaug Siversten”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“It isn’t a paradox, darling. I just expressed it in that way to sound like one. Everything can be formulated as a paradox. It isn’t difficult. It’s just that true paradoxes don’t exist. True paradoxes, ha, ha. Do you see how easy it is? It’s just words, the lack of precision in language. I have finished with words.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Protože voda, zbabělost a chtíč si vždy hledají nejnižší bod.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Das war nichts als der pathetische Schlussspurt, den man in Richtung Bahnsteig einlegt, obwohl man weiß, dass der Zug längst abgefahren ist. Man will einfach noch einen Rest von ihm sehen, ehe er verschwindet.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Малейший успех кружит нам голову. И только потому, что пару раз вышло по-нашему, мы уже считаем, что мы боги или уж точно кузнецы своего счастья.”
― Jo Nesbø, Пентаграмма

“that man’s ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportionate to intelligence.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“that stereotypes were self-reinforcing because unconsciously you were looking for things to confirm them.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“She had become so deeply sad from waking up in the morning knowing that she could stay in bed all day and it would not make any difference to anybody”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Žinoma, mes pamišę, Hari. Pamišę ir sveikiausi pasaulyje. Nes kai žmonės sako, kad tai, ką padariau, yra beprotybė, kad mano širdis išsigimusi, aš klausiu: kuri širdis labiau išsigimusi - ta, kuri negali liautis mylėjusi, ar ta, kuri yra mylima, bet negali atsakyti į meilę?”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Lavonas atrodydavo kaip tuščias vabzdžio kiautas voratinklyje - esybė būdavo išnykusi, šviesa išnykusi, nelikę to iliuzinio švytėjimo, kurį skleidžia kadai užgesusios žvaigždės. Kūnas būdavo netekęs sielos. Ir būtent sielos nebuvimas įkvėpė Harį tikėti.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“It’s what we call a mare cross, or a devil’s star.’ ‘A mare cross?’ ‘A pagan symbol. They used to carve it over beds or doorways to keep away the mare.’ ‘The mare?”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Belle Gunness who was that rare thing: a female serial killer. She left for America and married a weed of a man in 1902 and settled down on a farm outside La Porte in the state of Indiana.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“At least until you land.’ ‘I’ve come to realise that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“She was what most people would call dead.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“People are much more used to hearing lies than the truth. - Wilhelm Barli”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Loneliness makes us men weak. - Wilhelm Barli”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Unfortunately we live in a country that is so rich at the moment that the politicians compete with each other to be the most open-handed. We've become so soft and nice that no-one dares to take the responsibility for doing unpleasant things any more. - Tom Waaler”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Jim Beam is made with rye, barley and a while 75 per cent of maize which gives bourbon the sweet, round taste that marks it out from straight whisky. The water in Jim Beam comes from a source near the distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, where they also make the special yeast that some people maintain is taken from the same recipe Jacob Bean used in 1795.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons. - Harry Hole”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star

“Building cathedrals is a calling. In Italy they gave masons who died during the construction of a church the status of a martyr. Even though cathedral builders built for humanity there isn't a single cathedral in human history that was not founded on human bones and human blood. - Tom Waaler”
― Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star