Almeda Hida

“You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way.”
― Hermann Hesse, Knulp

“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True,”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove