‘You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,’ she said to him once, when he asked why she had to be so upbeat the whole time.

From the book, A man called Ove

Ove could never make head nor tail of those impossible kids, but he was not beyond liking them for what they did to Sonja.

Every human being needs to know what she’s fighting for. That was what they said. And she fought for what was good. For the children she never had. And Ove fought for her.

Because that was the only thing in this world he really knew.