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

Hakan Nesser

#3. I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Harry Chapin

#4. For the time being - "He emphasized each word. "I'll be the only one climbing through your window.

Piper Shelly

#5. 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

#6. You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.
The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me.

Orson Scott Card

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

Hakan Nesser

#8. I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater - faint and ineffective, but constant.

Neal Shusterman

#9. 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

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

Hakan Nesser

#11. 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

#12. All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

#13. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

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

Hakan Nesser

#15. 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

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

Hakan Nesser

#17. 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

#18. There are reasons for everything we do.

Hakan Nesser

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

Hakan Nesser

#20. 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

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

Hakan Nesser

#22. 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

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

Hakan Nesser

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

Hakan Nesser

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

Hakan Nesser

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

Hakan Nesser

#27. 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

#28. My go-to prebikini flat-ab move is the plank, all different types.

Julianne Hough