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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman



"Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her, but if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't."      -AManCalledOve


"Men become what they are because of what they do. Not what they say"                            -AManCalledOve


"Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing"            -AManCalledOve

I can't stress enough how good this book is! The book is funny, sarcastic, sad, romantic, gripping and much more. You'll end up laughing and crying at the same time. One of the best books I have read in a long time.
A man called ove have an opinion on everyone whether it may be a jogger, "either they walk too fast or they run slowly, that's what joggers do." or someone tall "Ove feels an instinctive scepticism towards all people taller than one eighty-five; the blood can't quite make it all the way to the brain" But he did not fail to tell readers that even a grumpy old man have a heart which is too big for this world. If you ask me what I am taking from ove? then I'll say "A time like that comes for all men, when they choose what sort of men they want to be. And if you don't know the story you don't know the men."

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I tried to add all the quotes and my favourite lines from the book but they were too many that I would have got sued because of piracy.

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