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“…it made her aware of something she hadn’t known existed: amiable camaraderie.”

Poirot is such a delightful little man!

“‘[Staying in San Francisco is about] giving myself the chance to see what I’m really made of.’” YES HATTIE!!! Charlie can wait.

Go get 'em, Hattie!

‘…the first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.’

‘You’ve given birth to two children and quite soon you’ll be squeezing out a third. You’ve come here from a land far away and most likely you fled war and persecution…You’ve learned a new language and got yourself an education and you’re holding together a family of obvious incompetents. And I’ll be damned if I’ve seen you afraid of a single bloody thing in this world before now.’ -Ove to Parvaneh

“…when a person gives to another person it’s not just the receiver who’s blessed. It’s the giver.”

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”

Awwwwww

“‘The world does not only exist because you say it does. It is filled with countless thoughts and opinions that don’t match your own. Surely waking after five years to see everyone kept living, despite your imprisonment, shows you are not the centre of it.’” - Everleigh to Silas