Hakan Nesser Quotes

#1. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

Maj Sjowall

#2. Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Neal Shusterman

#4. Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ...

Hakan Nesser

#5. If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself.

Saaif Alam

#6. And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence, coupling, of being absolutely worthy, absolutely necessary to the one person in the world who hadn't needed anyone. Before.

Melanie Benjamin

#7. I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#8. We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.

Hakan Nesser

#9. Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

Yo-Yo Ma

#10. Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed?

Hakan Nesser

#11. Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one.

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#12. Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole.

Cassandra Clare

#13. Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

Grace Metalious

#14. I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.

Waris Ahluwalia

#15. A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

Hakan Nesser

#16. I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

Ralph Fiennes

#17. Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.

Hakan Nesser

#18. To dispair is to turn your back on God.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then.

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#20. What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.

Hakan Nesser

#21. It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman.

Hakan Nesser

#22. Shitty weather. You wonder how people can raise the strength to go out and kill one another.

Hakan Nesser

#23. Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet

Hakan Nesser

#24. The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

Hakan Nesser

#25. The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.

Hakan Nesser

#26. You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.

Hakan Nesser

#27. The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Hakan Nesser

#28. I tell everyone never to take more than a fifteen-year fixed-rate loan, and never have a payment of over 25 percent of your take-home pay. That is the most you should ever borrow.

Dave Ramsey

#29. There are reasons for everything we do.

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#30. Perhaps for the first time in any medium, the person teaching you science - Carl Sagan - cared about the tangled mental roadways that can rob a person of rational thought.

Carl Sagan

#31. Blue had two rules: stay away from boys, because they're trouble, and stay away from raven boys, because they were bastards.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then - it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.

Hakan Nesser

#33. The waves dying a natural death on the beach seemed to have traveled vast distances bearing neither life nor hope.

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#34. I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

George W. Bush

#35. It's only cows who never change their opinion.

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