Carla Libânio

“Now you listen to me," says Ove calmly while he carefully closes the door. "You've given birth to two children and quite soon will be squeezing out a third. You've come here from a land far away and most likely you fled war and persecution and all sorts of other nonsense. You've learned a new language and got yourself an education and you're holding together a family of obvious incompetents. And I'll be damned if I've seen you afraid of a single bloody thing in this world before now....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." And then he utters seven words, which Parvaneh will always remember as the loveliest compliment he'll ever give her. "Because you are not a complete twit.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“As pessoas são feitas de porcelana, concluiu. Lascam com facilidade, instigam em nós a urgência de não as deixar cair. Partem-se em pedaços se as largamos. E esses pedaços são inconsoláveis. É impossível tornarmos a juntá-los e, se o tentamos, ficaremos para sempre a observar as rachas que inadvertidamente lhes causámos, cicatrizes que não passam. Por mais que as pessoas jurem que são feitas de outro material, acredite em mim quando lhe digo que são feitas de porcelana, da mais frágil e dispendiosa.”
― João Tordo, O Luto de Elias Gro