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But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.

missing someone who is still here,

They laugh until no one can forget that this is what we leave behind when we go: the laughs.

Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone. It grates on those who can't handle it themselves.

The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they're going to have any chance in the world.

their house every six months. Or, to be more exact,

How the heck are you supposed to have a reasonable conversation with someone who buys a BMW?

if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal. In

It doesn't take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

All roads lead to something you were predestined to do.

All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.

Many of them have insanely weird clothes, as if they've been playing outfit roulette with someone who can't read washing instruction tags.

Her head against his chest and whispered: We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.

It's a grandmother's privilege never to have to show her grandchild who she was before she became a grandmother.

The unreserved celebration of mediocrity. No

perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a best friend. You

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry By Fredrik Backman This

Tell me that that's what it's like to fall in love, like you don't have room for yourself in your own feet.

Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound. And

He felt one should not go through life as if everything was exchangeable. As if loyalty was worthless. Nowadays

And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way.

Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence.

There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.

A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

And they do what they can. Try to learn to live with themselves, try to live rather than just existing.

It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything.' 'It's hard for a child to accept it too,

What sort of love is it if you hand someone over when it gets difficult?" she cries, her voice shaking with sorrow. "Abandon someone when there's

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.

All people who have seen war are broken.

It's too painful to us to admit that our children won't wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things...

Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.

The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made-up.

At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?

Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.

They never had much, but they always had enough.

It's not natural rattling around the house on my own all day when you're not here. It's no way to live. That's all I have to say.

Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,

Because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes. And anyone who doesn't agree needs their head examined.

He misses her so much that sometimes he can't bear existing in his own body.

Don't fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.

She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy, Granny used to say.

Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.

All people want to live dignified live; dignity just means something different to different people.

I mean, this political correctness! It's worse than apartheid

I feel so much loss, Ove. Loss, as if my heart was beating outside my body.

The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...
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Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.

Because no one gets upset if you don't say anything. All almost-eight-year-olds know that.

This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.

Drinks at least twenty cups of coffee per day and always looks triumphantly

I'm pants at aiming.

Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit.

Only a swine thinks size and strength are the same thing. Remember that.

An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.

There's something special about a grandmother's house. You never forget how it smells.

There are certainly a good number of
alternatives to "shit," if you have a particular need to express such a feeling.

It wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living. Grief is a strange thing.

People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

Big secrets turn us into small men." Benji

But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.

All over her face and sunglasses so big that one can't tell whether they're a pair of glasses or some kind of helmet.

Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for.

I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.

When you know someone is keeping secrets from you it makes you feel like an idiot, and no one likes feeling like an idiot. Mum

Loneliness is an invisible ailment.

It's complicated."
"Yes, until someone explains it to you!

It's easier to make your way if you choose your own soundtrack

Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He

it looks like a small envelope with a phenomenal capacity for water absorption.

And where was the world going if people couldn't even write or brew a pot of coffee?

Parvaneh gives him a look studded with a long line of question marks and exclamation marks,

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. Maybe

And being special is the best way of being different.

It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.

I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.

They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them." As if that's how oppression works. But

We don't beat people to death in this leaseholders' association.

I'm not running a cat repair company

The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.

a queen only stays in power for as long as her subjects are afraid of conflict. Or

neither of them forgave themselves for not being able to give the women they loved more than anything what they wanted more than anything.

Soccer is a curious game, because it doesn't ask to be loved. It demands it. Britt-Marie

Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility.

To teach her that not all monsters are monsters in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.

Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he'd possessed.

So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown's real traditional sports: shame and silence.

If you can be heard then you exist, mutters hungover Bank, massaging her temples.

Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

Ove has been a grumpy old man since the first day of second grade

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.

Sometimes things have to clear a space so something else can take its place.

we are always optimists when it comes to time; we

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.

It's as if the whole house is missing Granny now. Not the people living in it, but the actual building.

dressed like a 14 year old Romanian gymnast...

We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.