“A job well done is a reward in its own right,”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Men like Ove and Rune were from a generation in which one was what one did, not what one talked about.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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