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All people want to live dignified live; dignity just means something different to different people. (A Man Called Ove Quotes)
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
All roads lead to something you were predestined to do.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
And if you could just go and buy everything, what was the value of it? What was the value of a man?
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Because a time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he’s going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Both men, once as close as men of that sort could be, stare at each other. One of them a man who refuses to forget the past, and one who can’t remember it at all.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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
It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of loneliness.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Loving someone is like moving into a house, ‘At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren’t actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this. Then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all its perfection, but rather for its imperfections. You get to know all the nooks and crannies. How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock when it’s cold outside. Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking. These are the little secrets that make it your home.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Maybe to her destiny was something that was none of his business. But to him, destiny was someone.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Straight lines, even edges. People don’t shovel snow that way anymore. Nowadays they just clear a way, they use snow blowers and all sorts of things. Any old method will do, scattering snow all over the place. As if that were the only thing that mattered in life: pushing one’s way forward.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they’d never done anything wrong.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
