He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy.

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

Only a swine thinks size and strenght are the same thing.

You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.

It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

Men are what they are because of what they do, not what they say.

You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.

Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.

Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.

hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future.

A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages

Everyone can use a little beauty.

Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.