Fredrik Backman A Man Called Ove Quotes & Sayings

But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people. — Jennifer Weiner

I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at. — Fredrik Backman

Life is a Curious Thing. Winter turns to spring and Parvaneh passes her driving test. Of teaches Adrian how to change tires. The kid may have bought a Toyota, but that doesn't mean he's entirely beyond help, Ove explains to Sonja when he visits her one Sunday in April. The he shows her some photographs of Parvaneh's little boy. Four months old and as fat as a seal pup. Patrick has tried to force one of those cell phone camera things on Ove, but he doesn't trust them. So he walks around with a thick wad of paper copies inside his wallet instead, held together by a rubber band. Shows everyone he meets. Even the people who work at the florist's, — Fredrik Backman

But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge. — Peter F. Drucker

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable. — George Eliot

His days passed like this, slow and methodical. And then one morning he saw her. She had brown hair and blue eyes and red shoes and a big yellow clasp in her hair.
And then there was no more peace and quiet for Ove. — Fredrik Backman

The greatest enemy to love is your pride — Pete Wilson

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character. — Ashley Scott

But in this at least thou shalt not defy my will: to rule my own end. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry. — Ava DuVernay

...he had begun more and more to differentiate between people who did what they should, and hide who didn't. People who did and people who just talked. — Fredrik Backman

To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home. "
- Fredrik Backman , A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman