“ But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing. ”
Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards
~ Jussi Adler-Olsen
Carl Mørck, am I disturbing you? said a voice at the door, which made his blood boil and turn to ice at the same time. His spinal cord sent five commands through his infrastructure: get rid of the eraser, cover the last line, put away the cigarette, drop the stupid facial expression, close your mouth!
If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.
He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.