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“Sometimes, Mamma Valerius would come and listen behind the door, wipe away a tear and go downstairs on tiptoe, sighing for her Scandinavian skies.”
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“Then he asked me if I wasn't interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't dissatisfied with mine here at all.”
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“the country folk could not understand the conduct of this rustic fiddler, who tramped the roads with that pretty child who sand like an angel from Heaven.”
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“Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his. She had a way of folding her index finger into his palm, hiding it inside. And he always felt that nothing in the world was impossibly when she did that. Of all the things he could miss, that’s what he misses most.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“It’s been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn’t sneakily turned up the heating.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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