That was why he had always liked mathematics. There were right or wrong answers there. Not like the other hippie subjects they tried to trick you into doing at school, where you could "argue your case." As if that was a way of concluding a discussion: checking who knew more long words. Ove wanted what was right to be right, and what was wrong to be wrong.
Fredrik Backman
.. Elsa had grown conscious of the fact that the girl hadn't read Harry Potter at all. She knew who he was, of course, everyone knows who Harry Potter is, but she hadn't read the books.. And while Elsa didn't want to be elitist or anything, how could one be expected to reason with a person like that?Muggles.
Maya is silent for a long time, then asks, 'Do you want boys or girls?'Ana replies as if she's spent her whole life thinking about this, 'Boys.''Why?''Because the world is kind of shitty toward them sometimes. But it treats us like that nearly all the time.
No," she lies. Because she's polite enough to know that if someone gives you a book, you owe that person the pretense that you haven't read it.
What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.
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.
Anxiety. It's such a peculiar thing. Almost everyone knows what it feels like, yet none of us can describe it. Maya looks at herself in the mirror, wonders why it can't be seen on the outside. Not even on x-rays- how does that work? How can something that bangs away at us so horribly hard on the inside not show up on the pictures as black scars, scorched into our skeletons? How can the pain she feels not be visible in the mirror?
Han var en man av svart och vitt. Och hon var färg. All hans färg
He had never understood the need to go round stewing on why things turned out the way they did. You are what you are and you do what you do, and that was good enough for Ove. He didn't quite know what he should say to avoid seeming uneducated and stupid, but it proved to be less of a problem than he had thought. She liked talking and Ove liked keeping quiet.
If you spend your whole life being someone else, who will be you?
Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.
There's an obvious difference between the children who live in homes where the money can run out and the ones who don't. How old you are when you realize that also makes a difference.
A great deal is expected of anyone who's been given a lot.
It's so easy to think that what we post online is like raising your voice in a living room when it's actually more like shouting from the rooftops. Our fantasy worlds always have consequences for other people's realities.
The three-year-old looked as if she was ready to try to hug the cat. The cat looked as if it was ready to pick out the three-year-old from a lineup at a police station.
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