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“I couldn’t have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.”

“They’d wanted something all their lives, but now they had it, they didn’t recognize it. Perhaps, when someone has experienced a day-to-day life that makes sense, they can never become accustomed to strangeness. That is something that I, who have only experienced absurdity, can only suppose.”

“the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you — not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving — and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad — or good — it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well”

“And then I went to college, and I met people who, for whatever reason, decided to be my friends, and they taught me — everything, really. They made me, and make me, into someone better than I really am.”

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”