Salma Hammad

“Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“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

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature