Love Quotes Quote by Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”

“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.”

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

“Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”

“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”