“I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of that maze, that forest of feelings”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“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
“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― A Girl I Knew
― A Girl I Knew
“It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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