Liesbet

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“Mehri has always treated parenting like she’s cooking a big warming pan of something: a pinch of that, a pinch of this, she’s sure it will turn out fine in the end. Cora’s own approach has always felt more like baking a cake: carefully measuring out ingredients and trying not to ruin everything. She admires Mehri’s way.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can’t quite make it all the way up to the brain.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove