Mar 14, 2019
“Her face buried into her hands. Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (326)
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“Her face buried into her hands. Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (326)
“It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (309)
“Perspective can make a great deal of difference to people’s reputations.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (291)
“Not that it’s important to listen to local news when you’re about to shoot yourself in the head, but Ove thinks there’s no harm in keeping yourself updated.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (277)
“Not with the measured, objective steps of a council employee in full control, but something else. With anger. Impatience. Vengefully. Ove can’t remember anything having made him feel so good in a long, long time.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (266)
“So there were certainly people who thought that feelings could not be judged by looking at cars. But they were wrong.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (246)
“The youth seems just about to say something but he doesn’t get the chance before Ove shakes his whole upper body as if trying to get rid of a persistent wasp.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (229)
“But because he knows it’s been a while since someone reminded him of the difference between being wicked because one has to be or because one can.”
Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (222)