Quotes from The Son

“But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can’t be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can’t see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“You can discover new things by changing your perspective and your location”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Suddenly he realised why so many of the inmates went to the young man to talk. It was the silence. The beckoning vacuum of someone who simply listens without reaction or judgement. Who extracts your words and your secrets from you without doing anything at all.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“We don’t punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn’t heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“I’m thinking about how lucky I am,” he said. “Because I have you. Because I have”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Sometimes we’re wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“A son’s responsibility isn’t to be like his father, but to be better than him.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go?”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Love's the sum total of all the little things you can never really put your finger on. Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops but you get warm.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Well, religion was like fire insurance; you never really thought you’d need it, so when people said that the boy was prepared to take your sins upon himself and didn’t want anything in return, why not say yes to some peace of mind?”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“They had once sworn to tell each other everything, absolutely everything, and after they had done that, after they had tested how much truth the other could tolerate, their stories had become the walls and the roof that held their home together.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“We’re probably more like our parents than we’d like to believe.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Sometimes we’re wrong when we think that we know the truth about our parents. Perhaps they weren’t weak. Perhaps something happened to give you the wrong impression. What if they were strong? What if they were willing to leave behind a disgraced name, allow themselves to be stripped of all honour, take the blame, to save the ones they loved? And if they were that strong, perhaps you’re strong, too.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Pele, kako... Kako znaš da li te neko voli?"
"Ma naprosto znaš. To ti je zbir svih onih sitnica koje ne možeš da izdvojiš pojedinačno. Vidiš, ljubav ti je kao topao tuš. Ne vidiš pojedinače kapljice ali te one svejedno greju. Kvase. I čiste.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Ne kažnjavamo mi druge zato što su zli, već zato što prave pogrešan izbor, izbor pogrešan za čopor. Moral nije ništa bogom dano ili večno, već samo skup pravila nužan za dobrobir čopora.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“innocence walks hand-in-hand with ignorance. How insight never clarifies, only complicates.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“had kicked the chair away from underneath him. That’s why he clawed his own neck”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Simon closed his eyes again. He nodded slowly. “So we’re slaves to love. And who we’re given to love, that’s a lottery too. Is that what you’re saying?” “It’s brutal, but that’s how it is,” Sissel declared. “And the gods laugh,” Simon said.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Но в живота винаги идва момент, в който не може да отлагате повече, където не може да бъдете слаб още един ден и да обещавате на себе си, че утре, утре ще започнете този нов друг живот.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“were done, then it was payback time. She had”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Svojevremeno su se zakleli da će jedno drugome uvek reći sve, baš sve, a posle toga, nakon što su isprobali koliko ovo drugo istine može podneti, te priče su postale zid i krov od kojih je sazdan njihov dom”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“That everything apart from death, everything he preached about, was nothing but a defence people had created against their fear of death. And yet none of what he used to believe meant anything at all. What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Nipošto!", rekla je kroz smeh. "Možeš da me slikaš." Odmahnuo je glavom. "Više volim glas." "Kako to?" ... "Izgled se menja, ali glas je trajniji.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

“Ali jedno je jasno: ako želiš da hodaš uspravno, rizikuješ da padneš pravo na nos!”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Son

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