It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn’t possible to open one’s mouth at all without setting off at least four unexploded mines from earlier conflicts. It was the sort of argument that had just run, and run, and run. Until one day it just ran out. Chapter 12. A Man Who Was Ove and One Day He Had Enough
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
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