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“But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.”
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― 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
“One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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