A Man Called Ove (2012)

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Favorite Quotes

• Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can’t quite make it all the way up to the brain.

• People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But Sonja was color. All the color he had.

• And when one of Sonja’s girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it.

• But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead. 

• 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 words like “if.”

• 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. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.