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“I know what you’ve suffered,” Sween said, crossing to lay a hand gently on Dote’s arm. “I know it well. But we must think of them not only as they have been but as what they might become.”
“People had always said that Ove was bitter. But he wasn't bloody bitter. He just didn't go around grinning the whole time. Did that mean one had to be treated like a criminal? Ove hardly thought so. Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“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.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“A job well done is a reward in its own right,”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Political correctness is for acquaintances, not friends.”
― Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
― Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
“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.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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