Jussi Adler-Olsen Quotes

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

He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

Was she pregnant then?' asked Assad. Judging by the number of family members in his photos, it was a feminine condition with which he was quite familiar.

@She is really really so beautiful there, ' said Assad.Carl glanced at him. Apparently a woman's appearance was a particularly valuable factor in his assistant's world-view. But Carl agreed with him.

Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.