Mary Beth

“Lady Pochard: I do believe you could find the good in a reptile Mr. Rotherford. What do you have to say about me then?
Silis Rotherham: You have a highly acute perception stemming from a combination of the sharp wit you were born with and trials that would shock your family.
Lady Poch: A wise answer. You might even be smarter than the man that had the good sense to choose me as a wife.
Silis Rotherham: I am merely intentional about recognizing the good in people – a little something to combat all the critics in the world.
Lady Pochard: I’m not sure whether to call that foolish or brilliant!
Silis Rotherham: I settle for obedient. It was God’s idea, not mine”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, Lady Jayne Disappears

“One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space.”
― 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. With those smug smiles on their faces, as if they were out there curing pulmonary emphysema. Either they walk fast or they run slowly, that’s what joggers do. It’s a forty-year-old man’s way of telling the world that he can’t do anything right. Is it really necessary to dress up as a fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast in order to be able to do it? Or the Olympic tobogganing team? Just because one shuffles aimlessly around the block for three quarters of an hour?”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove