Quotes from Karin Fossum

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half in each. But to live in the present! Hardly anybody can do it.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Take away security to leave room for experience.

Money isn't everything," Eva said knowingly. "Perhaps you'll die before you can enjoy it." "Perhaps you'll die before you've even lived," Maja countered.

Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights should be stripped from them?

Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be different -- once it's here all the time, every time I lift my eyes ... when I come into the living room in the morning and in the evening ... Will it make me happy? Yes, a voice inside him said, it will make you happy.

How can you know you're a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?

Do you know Oslo well?" Sejer asked, surprised. "I drove a taxi there for two years." "Is there anything you haven't done?" "I've never done any skydiving.

While I am absorbed by fiction, I pull the strings like a puppeteer; I make things happen. It's a passion and a lifelong obsession.

Grieving is something we have to live with, it's a constant battle. And the enemy is the rest of our lives. All those nights. All those hours.

Maja sighed and cleared away the glasses and plates. "Artists certainly aren't easy people." "No," Eva giggled. "but somebody's got to take the trouble to emphasize the depths of existence. So that the rest of you have a surface to skate over.

You have a daughter who's been through puberty," he said inquisitively. "So what was it like?" "Oh," Sejer said, looking out the window. "It was mostly Elise who handled that type of thing. But I do remember it. Puberty is a really rough time. She was a sunbeam until she turned thirteen, then she began to snarl. She snarled until she was fourteen, then she began to bark. And then it wore off.

If you like someone, you'll believe anything they say," Matteus said. "Think about that for a while. When you sit in your office talking to Johnny Beskow.

achieved a result, then just hours later this retreat, which didn't worry him, he said, the confession would weigh heavily in court, it needed explaining. We're hopeful that Gøran will be convicted, he said, sounding very persuasive.

To reach your children, Ruth thought, you have to take an interest in whatever is important to them...

As long as adults make mistakes and as long as parents abuse, they will create new abusers.

There's nothing as nice as a moderate drinking problem,

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