“ I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They… Fredrik Backman
“ Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch. Fredrik Backman
“ He is wearing a rugby shirt with numbers and a little man on a horse on his chest. Kent has told Elsa that this sort of shirt costs more than a thousand kronor, and Granny always used to say that thos… Fredrik Backman
“ He had never heard anything quite as amazing as that voice. She talked as if she was continuously on the verge of breaking into giggles. And when she giggled she sounded the way Ove imagined champagne… Fredrik Backman
“ To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside. Fredrik Backman
“ A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that. Fredrik Backman
“ She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them. Fredrik Backman
“ Ove looks at the group assembled around him, as if he's been kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe. For a moment he thinks about swerving off the road, until he realises that the worst case scena… Fredrik Backman
“ People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. Fredrik Backman
“ And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she’s having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie’s face. But in a controlled way. Fredrik Backman
“ People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are consta… Fredrik Backman
“ It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her. Fredrik Backman
“ Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else. Fredrik Backman
“ All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to… Fredrik Backman
“ Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. Th… Fredrik Backman
“ And then it goes as with all anger attacks. They don’t just consist of one anger, but of many. A long series of angers, flung into a volcano in one’s breast until it erupts. Fredrik Backman
