Scandinavian Mysteries Quotes

#1. I just can't comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn't keep your mouth shut.

Steen Langstrup

#2. Man is but his belief.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."

George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#4. What is the name of the woman on the telephone?"
"Alis K."
"Is that her real name?"
"No."

Conversation between 'BB' and his wife Grete
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#5. She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

Jo Nesbo

#7. Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

Eve Best

#8. F***, some people are so determined to be good that it makes me want to puke.
Bruno Hanson in
In The Shadow of Sadd.

Steen Langstrup

#9. They died. Along with three other men who had joined our group. We were betrayed. The porter had told his girlfriend about the operation. They'd only just met each other. Jens shot her a week later."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#10. I had my first cigarette when I was five," he says, making rings of smoke. "With my mother.

Steen Langstrup

#11. He looked around the room at all the stuff. But it wasn't just stuff and it wasn't just any girl grenade that had gone off in there. It was Nikki McKinney grenade.

Tara Janzen

#12. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup

#13. AK 47, is perfect copy, yes? Every detail. Like real thing. Yes. Kalashnikov. Your boy, he be happy for Uncle Sante, no?"
"I'm sorry, Sante. It's really nice of you, but I don't want Sofus playing with guns."
Conversation between George Hanson and Sante
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#14. Often seeing the success she had with young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not love her.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books

Steen Langstrup

#16. You'll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly."

Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#17. I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?
Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.

Steen Langstrup

#18. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup

Steen Langstrup

#19. Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.

Steen Langstrup