The Accidental Further Adventures Of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Quotes
"A life of luxury on an island in Paradise ought to be satisfactory to just about anyone."
"Especially when one’s best and only friend, the inveterate petty thief Julius Jonsson, was right next to one."
"It was, for a certain amount of time, gratifying to sit in a lounger under an umbrella and be served drinks of various colours at whim."
"Not that there was anything wrong with frittering. It just got so monotonous."
"Harry stayed for dinner even though he wasn’t paid extra for it."
"Allan had never been the nosy sort, but there were limits."
"If only they enjoyed fishing. Or, for that matter, eating fish."
"Julius appreciated the gesture and didn’t mention that the artist in question hadn’t been young since the end of the Second World War."
"The tablet could show what was going on in the world, and what had already gone on, and it verged on showing what was about to happen."
"The joy in being a small-time thief was, of course, mainly derived from tricking someone out of something."
"Those who stole should be locked up, no matter their title or position."
"Julius stuffed fried noodles into his mouth, finished chewing, then said he didn’t think the North Pole was the right place for him and Allan."
"Allan said that perhaps it was no wonder a polar bear might lose its temper given that the ground was melting beneath its feet."
"He noticed this as little then as he did the next time people converged around an ideological expression."
"He recalled his early years as an errand boy at the gunpowder factory in Flen."
"Peace on earth was in, and so were floral VW buses and, frequently, hash."
"Everyone loved everyone else, except Allan, who didn’t love anyone or anything. Except his cat."
"The only thing to suggest that Allan might actually die, after having failed to do so for so many years, was the fact that he was sitting in a woven basket that was taking in water."
"It was a gentle journey down to the surface of the Indian Ocean, which, that day, was practically a Pacific one."
"The man with the impossible name turned out to have a pragmatic attitude toward the significance of his own identity."
"Any charlatan worth his salt radiates a level of confidence that’s hard to defend oneself against."
"It’s hard to beat the beauty of your democratic republic."
"On occasion, people function such that they hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe."
"Hope is the last thing to abandon each individual."
"Peace between two parties presupposes cooperation by all."
"The struggle against an ever-crueller world."
"Someone must dare to take the side of peace and love."
"The least we can do is pay back the favour as best we can."
"If the level had instead been three, it would have been survivable."
"All people eat food for as long as they live. And despite this, they die eventually. All of them, no exceptions."
"I am a hardworking business owner. I’ve been here since eight this morning for almost no reason."
"The broader the potential target audience, the greater the chance of success."
"There’s a lot to think about when a loved one has passed away, and you’re weighed down with sorrow."
"The final journey is, of course, its own sort of travel – perhaps the most important one of all."
"The market for coffins north of the northern suburbs of Stockholm, however, seemed to be dead."
"Real democracy meant, among other things, the right to hound out everyone who didn’t belong in the Nordic countries."
"Many people saw the humour in denying the obvious."
"The only thing worth denying was the Holocaust."
"He climbed rapidly through the ranks by using a chainsaw to cut in two a man with the wrong attitude and the wrong race."
"The remarkable thing about the funeral wasn’t that the courier had been killed by a junkie – that sort of thing happened on occasion."
"All passengers in a vehicle must be belted in."
"The USA was still the greatest military power in the world."
"The point was to set American against American. A divided country was a weakened country, after all."
"He bought a bouquet of tulips at the closest corner shop and paid an evening visit to the battered man at the hospital."
"If you don’t believe in Olekorinko, his medicine doesn’t believe in you."
"The fear that the Russians would try to meddle in the election with disinformation about her doings had also come to naught."
"The crops waved around her, but she stood where she stood."
"If I were to guess, I would guess that Madame Agent has got us into a mess."
"The silence in the valley was magnificent. Like in Germany, thought Agent Langer, and yet so different."
"Up there, we have no secrets from each other or anyone else."
"Maybe before the dust settled they would also be able to have a drink and feel normal."
"We only live once. That's the only certainty in life. How long, though – that varies."
"Let the old man be. We've got a World Cup to worry about. May the best-doped team win!"
"It used to be easy to know what was true and what wasn't. Vodka was good. Two plus two was not five."
"Everything was the way it was. Couldn’t it just turn out the way it turned out, without a whole lot of hassle along the way?"
"But since people weren’t talking to each other any more, it ended up that whoever said the same thing the most times won."
"First you will announce that your shitty country will attend the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Then you will—"
"The chancellor began to answer, but Allan was hungry and had no time. He hung up."
"‘No,’ said Meitkini, who had recognized four pairs of glowing eyes not far off in the bush. ‘For the hyenas.’"