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“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
“The two men looked at each other for a moment. Then Sonja's father nodded. And Ove nodded curtly back. And then they rose to their feet, objective and determined, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”
― A Man Called Ove
― 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.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Ove stomped forward. The cat stood up. Ove stopped. They stood there measuring each other up for a few moments, like two potential troublemakers in a small-town bar. Ove considered throwing one of his clogs at it. The cat looked as if it regretted not bringing its own clogs to lob back.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
Alva ☆’s 2025 Year in Books
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125 books
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13 friends
100 books
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660 books
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5 books
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1 friend
342 books
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19 books
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0 books
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1 friend
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