Blood on Snow
Jo Nesbø
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
“You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.”
“... You can't see a person more nakedly than that, when they don't know they're being watched, studied.”
“What is it that makes us realise we’re going to die? What is it that happens on the day when we acknowledge it isn’t just a possibility, but an unavoidable fucking fact that our life will come to an end?”
“And, according to that Hume guy, the fact that I had until now woken up every morning in the same body, into the same world, where what had happened had actually happened, was no guarantee that the same thing would happen again tomorrow morning.”
“She was okay. You know someone’s okay if they can ignore things they can’t do anything about and move on. Wish I was like that.”
“She had got it into her head that we, her little family, would go on camping trips. Cook freshly caught trout beside a lake where the sun never set. I hope she got there with her drinking.”
“Listen, I am someone who had chosen to earn their daily bread killing other people. I'm inclined to give people a bit of leeway when it comes to their actions and decisions.”
“I stared out at a world that made no sense, had no coherence, just people desperately living the life that each of us has been given, instinctively sating every sick desire, stifling our anxieties about loneliness and the death-throes that start as soon as we realise we're mortal. I knew what she meant. Was. That. It?”
“Every so often she felt scared at the strength of her own love. It was like a dammed-up stream, and she knew that there was only a tiny difference between bathing and drowning someone in love. But she wasn't worried about that any longer. Because he looked like he'd be able to receive, and not just give”
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Book Keywords:
judgement, chances, love, contentment, understanding-people, reflection, happiness
