Jussi Adler-Olsen Quotes

#1. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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?

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#4. mean it wouldn't be the first time a man's

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#5. Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people.

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#6. And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an expert would probably be able to determine the vintage.

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#9. It was late in September and a little more than twenty degrees, so what the hell were people smiling for? They ought to be raising their faces toward the ozone layer in horror.

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#10. He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.

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#11. Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards

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#12. Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

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#13. This was what Ditlev loved: ceaseless gunfire, ceaseless killing, flapping specks in the sky terminated in an orgy of color. The slow drizzle of birds' bodies falling from above. The eagerness of the men to reload their weapons.

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#14. Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'

He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

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#15. When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a Colombian coffee farmer's fields, Klavs Jeppensen's chair was empty.

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#16. He dropped his pile of papers onto the desk and indicated the sheet on top. "Here is the common I nominate in all the fires, Carl." "You what?" "The common I nominate." "Common denominator, Assad. A compound noun. What common denominator?

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#17. following his dad and uncle.' Rose

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#18. Existed in the eternal dilemma: to give freedom free rein, or to rein freedom in?

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#19. 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.

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#20. But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

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#21. it before.' 'I see. Then perhaps you

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#22. And so it came to be.

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#23. It came from down where laughter is a defense and not an outstretched hand.

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#24. If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.

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#25. In this area, people watched reality shows and awful quiz shows, gorging themselves on junk food and moving further and further away from the opportunities that a good education or realistic ambitions could provide.

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