“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
― The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel
― The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel
“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Because Ove, as Parvaneh had soon realized, was the sort of man who, when he was not quite certain where he was going, just carried on walking straight ahead, convinced that the road would eventually fall into line.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“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
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