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.
Fredrik Backman
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.
Every human being needs to know what she's fighting for.
Feelings are complicated. Actions are simple.
Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.
They laugh until no one can forget that this is what we leave behind when we go: the laughs.
But, you know, do what you like! Have a million books! I was only, like, asking. It's still a book if you're reading it on an iPad. Soup is soup whatever bowl it's in.
Because Ove, as Parvaneh had soon realized, was the sort of man who, when he was not quite certain where he was going, just carried on walking straight ahead, convinced that the road would eventually fall into line.
You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.
Her laughter catches him off guard. As if it's carbonated and someone has poured it too fast and it's bubbling over in all directions. It doesn't fit at all with the gray cement and right-angled garden paving stones. It's an untidy, mischievous laugh that refuses to go along with rules and prescriptions.
And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.
Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild. When a boy is just big enough to know how the world works but still young enough to refuse to accept it.
And Maud bakes cookies, because when the darkness is too heavy to bear and too many things have been broken in too many ways to ever be fixed again, Maud doesn't know what weapon to use if one can't use dreams.
Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.
The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made-up.
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