Tempest Lew

“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

“He has to sort of struggle for a mouthful of air, like a fish in an overturned bowl.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Perched up on wooden stilts the house seemed to shrink from the forest behind it and crane eagerly out to the distant sea.”
― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

“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