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“There are two kinds of flowers when it comes to women,” Eve said. “The kind that sit safe in a beautiful vase, or the kind that survive in any conditions . . . even in evil. Lili was the latter. Which are you?”
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he’d possessed.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Champagne is never a mistake.”
― Big Little Lies
― Big Little Lies
“I spend my days mostly surrounded by people who are, to put it in terms you’d understand, waiting for the very last train to Clarkesville. Do you know what I’ve never heard any of them say ever? ‘It’s complicated.’ That’s because, when you look back at it, it almost never is. Nuclear physics is complicated. The middle east is complicated. Our lives? They’ve actually pretty damn simple, we just somehow make them difficult for ourselves. Of”
― A Man With One of Those Faces
― A Man With One of Those Faces
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