A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

People don’t have useful things anymore. People just have shit.

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.

Ove’s wife often quarrels with Ove because he’s always arguing about everything.

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

This was a world where one became outdated before one’s time was up.

People always said Ove and Ove’s wife were like night and day. Ove realized full well, of course, that he was the night.

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.

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

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.