Whisper Franklin

“Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Her lips are pulled into the sort of grimace that comes as close to a real smile as a woman whose lips have been injected with environmental waste and nerve toxins is ever likely to achieve.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Ove stomped forward. The cat stood up. Ove stopped. They stood there measuring each other up for a few moments, like two potential troublemakers in a small-town bar. Ove considered throwing one of his clogs at it. The cat looked as if it regretted not bringing its own clogs to lob back.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“...only a swine thinks size and strength are the same thing. Remember that.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove