Joy

“He cleared his throat and looked around with a certain desperation to find something to ask this old man about. Because that was what Ove had learned: if one didn't have anything to say, one had to find something to ask. If there was one thing that made people forget to dislike one, it was when they were given the opportunity to talk about themselves.”
― Fredrick Backman

“A job well done is a reward in its own right, as his father always used to say.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“It's a sort of computer. There are special drawing programs for it. For children,' she whispers a little louder.

And something is shining in her eyes.

Something that Ove recognizes.”
― Fredrick Backman