Quotes from HÃ¥kan Nesser

What we can be sure of, what we can rely on absolutely,is evil.It never lets us down.

Belief is something you have in church, and God is dead!

I don't think it will do any harm if he is made aware that we are not a bunch of idiots.

You can murder children and frail maidens that way, but not real men. He would wake up and start to defend himself. Besides, it was his birthday, and he would never forgive her if she tried to kill him on his sixty-fifth birthday.

He's not so thick, said Reinhart. It's mainly a question of tempo.

Or so he understood it. If you have twelve treasured memories, his Uncle Arndt had once said as Münster sat on his knee, you will have led a happy life.

The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then—it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.

Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.