That's what fathers do, they sit in front of their sons and tell their son's stories to a third person rather than letting them speak for themselves.
Fredrik Backman
She had a way of folding her index finger into his palm, hiding it inside. And he always felt that nothing in the world was impossible when she did that. Of all the things he could miss, that's what he misses most.
Point have been shits.
I'm not asking for brain surgery. I'm asking you to drive a car. It's got an accelerator, a brake, and a clutch. Some of the greatest twits in world history have sorted out how it works. And you will as well.
Life is both complicated and simple, which is why there are biscuits.
He munches a sandwich so messily that you can't help wondering if he's actually misunderstood the whole concept of eating.
Men are busy, but boys don't stop growing. Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. From then on we're all doomed to wish that we'd fallen asleep beside them more often, while their head could still lie on our chest. That we'd spent more time sitting on the floor while they were playing. Hugged them while they still let us.
The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies-the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains.
The last ones standing are covered in blinking neon lights, strung here and there across their facades like they were taped up by someone who was either in too much of a hurry or absolutely desperate for a poo.
Ove felt one should not go through life as if everything was exchangeable. As if loyalty was worthless. Nowadays, people change their stuff so often that any expertise in how to make things last becoming superfluous.
The president is sitting at his desk eating a sandwich the waya German shepherd would try to eat a balloon filled with mayonnaise.
Happiness is for children and animals, it doesn't have any biological function. Happy people don't create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all of your heroes, they've been obsessed. Happy people don't get obsessed, they don't devote their lives to curing illnesses or making planes take off. The happy leave nothing behind. They live for the sake of living, they're only on earth as consumers.
People are born adventurers, we have to explore and discover, it's our nature.
Ove stood in his garden and watched, helpless and in sorrow, as it burned.
They are both unfathomably complex, the pair of them, and that's why as different as they are, they understand each other.
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