The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

by Jonas Jonasson

Allan thought it sounded unnecessary for the people in the seventeenth century to kill each other. If they had only been a little patient they would all have died in the end anyway.

Once you’ve reached a certain age, it is easier to sense when everything feels exactly right.

—We all grow up and get older, Allan continued. You might not think so when you are a child.

—You were innocent, weren’t you? —But innocence can mean different things depending on whose perspective you adopt, said Benny. —I was thinking along the same lines, said Allan.