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

by Jonas Jonasson

Things are what they are, and whatever will be will be. That meant, among other things, that you didn’t make a fuss, especially when there was good reason to do so:

—Revenge is not a good thing, Allan warned him. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

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

Sometimes your mouth seems to go its own way while your brain stands still,