Jo Nesbø

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn’t it. The life you’ve lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside.

I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.