Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

Insanity, thy name is woman

She often said that 'all roads lead to something you were always predestined to do'. And for her, perhaps, it was something.

But for Ove it was someone.

...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t really explain why it occurs and where all the madness it brings with it comes from.

“Or why it just seems to happen like magic between two particular people but not others.”

“The appearance of love seems totally irrational, inexplicable and without reason. Yet, when it happens it feels like the only thing that makes any sense. True love, I guess, is when it keeps on making sense after you actually get to know the other person.