Jay Valentine

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Because perhaps it's true what they say, that up to a certain age a child loves you unconditionally and uncontrollably for one simple reason, you're theirs. Your parents and siblings can love you for the rest of your life, too, for precisely the same reason.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“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