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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.
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missing someone who is still here,
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And then the queen felt that she might as well make all talking illegal, because almost every conflict tended to start with someone saying something.
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Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone. It grates on those who can't handle it themselves.
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their house every six months. Or, to be more exact,
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All roads lead to something you were predestined to do.
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People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
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Everything seems obvious in hindsight!
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Many of them have insanely weird clothes, as if they've been playing outfit roulette with someone who can't read washing instruction tags.
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No one else may have noticed when he made himself into the best back on the whole team, but his mom was there every step of the way.
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The cat gives him a judgemental stare ,as if it's sitting on the decision-making side if the desk at a job interview.
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Her head against his chest and whispered: We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.
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You miss the strangest things when you lose someone. Little things. Smiles. The way she turned over in her sleep. Even repainting a room for her.
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Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.
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People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate.
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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.
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There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.
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If you can be heard then you exist.
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One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
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People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls. The
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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
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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.
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Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.
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You can't kill a nightmare, but you can scare it. And there's nothing so feared by nightmares as milk and cookies.
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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?
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Only different people change the world," Granny used to say. "No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.
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Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.
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Because you can be upset while you're eating chocolate Santas. But it's much, much, much more difficult.
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They never had much, but they always had enough.
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She liked talking and Ove liked keeping quiet. Retrospectively, Ove assumed that was what people meant when they said that people were compatible.
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She stood in front of him with January in her hair and he was lost.
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Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]
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They construct words of forgiveness from the ruins of fighting words.
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And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it.
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She knows they mean no harm by it, but come on! No seven-year-old who has seen films about the Italian Mafia wants to be "sorted" by her family.
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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.
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Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for.
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Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds.
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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.
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Someone once asked him if there was any sport he didn't like, and he replied "Politics. They should stop showing that on TV.
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And where was the world going if people couldn't even write or brew a pot of coffee?
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people are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed,
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This sport demands only one thing from you. Your all.
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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.
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We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.
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He loves white cables. And white telephones. And white computer monitors with fruit on the back.
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dressed like a 14 year old Romanian gymnast...
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It's as if the whole house is missing Granny now. Not the people living in it, but the actual building.
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If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.
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We're not the sort of people who tell tales about what others do,
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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.
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we are always optimists when it comes to time; we
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One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.
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Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,
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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
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Parvaneh gives him a look studded with a long line of question marks and exclamation marks,
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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
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Live your life. It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here.
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And being special is the best way of being different.
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It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.
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That time Rune drove a Volvo, but later he bought a BMW. You just couldn't reason with a person who behaved like that.
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Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
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I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.
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And that was how the people of Miaudacas learned that a queen only stays in power for as long as her subjects are afraid of conflict.
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If you don't like people, they can't hurt you.
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The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?
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We don't beat people to death in this leaseholders' association.
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I'm not running a cat repair company
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Every seven-year-old deserves a superhero. That's just how it is.
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The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.
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It's much more difficult to have conflict when there are cookies around.
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It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.
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Grow up and be different and don't let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.
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She shouldn't take any notice of what those muppets think, says Granny. Because all the best people are different - look at superheroes.
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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
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Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.
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Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.
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Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,
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The worst thing of having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
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So you have a job, then?' says Ove. Jimmy nods enthusiastically. 'I program iPhone apps.' Ove has no further questions. At
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Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.
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I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.
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Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.
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Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed.
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Because if we don't forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it's not loving our lovers even when they don't deserve it?
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The town slowly wakes up around him with its foreign-made cars and its statistics and credit card debt and all its other crap.
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Loneliness is an invisible ailment.
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It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.
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It's complicated.""Yes, until someone explains it to you! — Fredrik Backman
It's easier to make your way if you choose your own soundtrack
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Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.
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Ove is the sort of man who checks the status of all things by giving them a good kick. He
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