“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.” WayBodySportsBrainRocksMovementWallHigherLowsYour BodyClimbingRock ClimbingPersuading Author:Jo Nesbo
“When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.” PeopleWorldWantPersonsEnoughBodyJobsArtistPaySeriousCandidatesGood EnoughTallClientsMediocreProposeGood Artist Author:Jo Nesbo
“It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.” IfsBelieveLongMadeSoulFeelingsBodyLightStarsReligiousExistenceGoneSawsOne ThingMissingCreaturesAbsenceOwnersFlatsVoidBurnedDemiseIllusoryBurned OutBereftAfterglow Author:Jo Nesbo
“Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.” KindRealBodyExerciseCancerFatsSensibleMoldHysteriaDietingWomen's BodiesReal Women Author:Jo Nesbo
