Tempest Lew

“Ove keeps his eyes on him, as if watching a blind man at the wheel of a crowded city bus.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Ove glares out of the window. The poser is jogging. Not that Ove is provoked by jogging. Not at all. Ove couldn’t give a damn about people jogging. What he can’t understand is why they have to make such a big thing of it.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Every other day they put out food for a family of birds living in a rotting tree at the back of the house. It was important, Ove understood, that it had to be every other day. He didn’t know why, but that didn’t matter.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Perched up on wooden stilts the house seemed to shrink from the forest behind it and crane eagerly out to the distant sea.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea