“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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