Jo Nesbø said this quote

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

~ Jo Nesbø

They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes.

~ Jo Nesbø

You are Bellman, aren’t you? The genius who sent the sauna ape after me?” Harry nodded toward the Finn.

~ Jo Nesbø

With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that...

~ Jo Nesbø