Lelanie

“Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“All people want to live dignified live; dignity just means something different to different people.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“There are many ways in which the "check brain" light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“He's silent. And then they both stand there, the fifty-nine-year-old and the teenager, a few yards apart, kicking at the snow. As if they were kicking a memory back and forth, a memory of a woman who insisted on seeing more potential in certain men than they saw in themselves.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove