A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

“All people want to live dignified lives; dignity just means something different to different people,”

Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but 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 words like “if.”

This wrecked me.

But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.