One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it's right and one could say it's wrong. And probably both would be right. Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies.
Fredrik Backman
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.
But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.
They never had much, but they always had enough.
Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him. "What did you write?""I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first.""That's a very good answer.""Isn't it? I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh.""Did you write that?""Yes.""What did your teacher say?""She said I hadn't understood the task.""And what did you say?""I said she hadn't understood my answer.
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?
.. Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.
There are few words that are harder to explain than "loyalty." It's always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.
The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?
Men like Ove and Rune were from a generation in which one was what one did, not what one talked about.
One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
A job well done is a reward in its own right.
The currency there is imagination; instead of buying something with coins, you buy it with a good story. Libraries aren't known as libraries but as "banks," and every fairy tale is worth a fortune.
It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.
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