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“Sonja said once that to understand men like Ove and Rune, one had to understand from the very beginning that they were men caught in the wrong time. Men who only required a few simple things from life, she said. A roof over their heads, a quiet street, the right make of car, and a woman to be faithful to. A job where you had a proper function.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“The poet T. S. Eliot captured this in his “Choruses from ‘The Rock’”: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order

“Ove’s wife sometimes jokes that the three worst words Ove knows in this life are “Batteries not included.” People usually laugh when she says that. But Ove does not usually laugh.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove