May

“Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“He misses her so much that sometimes he can’t bear existing in his own body.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“It's a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you've had time to create your own to replace it. It's a very specific sort of loneliness.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove