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“no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.”
“Smoking’s banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,” he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.”
“Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.”
“Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.”
“Can you feel it? The vibration? It’s the energy from everyone around us. It’s in the air. If you’re dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absor...”
“What do we mean by ‘crazy’? What do we mean by ‘mad’? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or...”
“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it,” Harry answered. “It’s a methodology.”
“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is...”
“Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.”
“Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerle...”
“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other p...”
“There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up,’ Harry recounted. ‘He must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw ...”
“Bjarne Møller, my former boss, says people like me always choose the line of most resistance. It's in what he calls our 'accursed nature'. That's why we always end up on our own. I don't know. I li...”
“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.”
“You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.”
“Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.”
“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
“in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible”
