Karin Fossum > Quotes

“We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?”
― Karin Fossum

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

“If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.”
― Karin Fossum, When the Devil Holds the Candle

“Take away security to leave room for experience.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

“If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, When the Devil Holds the Candle

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, In the Darkness

“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?”
― Karin Fossum, The Caller

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Don't Look Back

“Eram vinte e uma horas e quarenta minutos de 5 de Outubro, e Eva não tinha antecedentes criminais.”
― Karin Fossum, Evas öga

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions

“How can you know you’re a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?”
― Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, The Indian Bride

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, In the Darkness

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, The Caller

“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.”
― Karin Fossum, Don't Look Back

“När hjulet kom, gick allting på tok för fort för oss.”
― Karin Fossum, De Gales Hus

“There’s nothing as nice as a moderate drinking problem,”
― Karin Fossum, He Who Fears the Wolf

“She pulled the blanket tighter around her, as if to demonstrate her vulnerability. "Anything can happen," she said. "Haven't you realized that yet?”
― Karen Fossum

“interior del piso era acogedor y cálido, con las”
― Karin Fossum, No mires atrás (Inspector Sejer 2)

“palabra era como agitar un paño rojo delante de sus ojos. No se dio por vencido, siguió dando golpes con”
― Karin Fossum, No mires atrás (Inspector Sejer 2)

“down”
― Karin Fossum, Black Seconds

“Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki
(Wie de wolf vreest)”
― Karin Fossum, He Who Fears the Wolf

“Words that were accompanied by her arm, which held him tightly, and by her warm, assured voice: she was an adult and she knew certain things. Security was part of his innermost core, and his entire life rested upon it.”
― Karen Fossum

“But society is going to fall apart if we stop reporting crime.”
― Karin Fossum, When the Devil Holds the Candle

“As long as adults make mistakes and as long as parents abuse, they will create new abusers.”
― Karin Fossum, The Water's Edge

“From the outside everything looks fine,” the dentist said, “but it’s rotten to the core.”
― Karin Fossum, Bad Intentions

“Memories of her dying. All the pain she went through. It's a little like living by a waterfall," he said. The years go by and I'm worn down by the continuous roar. Which I can never shut off. But it was the card I drew in this life.”
― Karen Fossum