Tempest Lew

“Ove glares out of the window. The poser is jogging. Not that Ove is provoked by jogging. Not at all. Ove couldn’t give a damn about people jogging. What he can’t understand is why they have to make such a big thing of it.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“When the old truck, the one they used to drive up and down the railway track, broke down one night more than ten miles outside of town, in one of the worst downpours of the whole year, Ove managed to repair it with nothing but a screwdriver and half a roll of gauze tape.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Every other day they put out food for a family of birds living in a rotting tree at the back of the house. It was important, Ove understood, that it had to be every other day. He didn’t know why, but that didn’t matter.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“She believed in destiny. That all the roads you walk in life, in one way or another, “lead to what has been predetermined for you.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove