Fredrik Backman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But Granny was the sort of person you brought with you when you went to war, and that was what Elsa loved about her.
Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone. It grates on those who can't handle it themselves.
The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they're going to have any chance in the world.
All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.
Many of them have insanely weird clothes, as if they've been playing outfit roulette with someone who can't read washing instruction tags.
Her head against his chest and whispered: We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.
It's a grandmother's privilege never to have to show her grandchild who she was before she became a grandmother.
perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a best friend. You
Tell me that that's what it's like to fall in love, like you don't have room for yourself in your own feet.
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound. And
He felt one should not go through life as if everything was exchangeable. As if loyalty was worthless. Nowadays
And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she's having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie's face. But in a controlled way.
Amel slashes at the consonants so that they hop about like naughty children caught inside the sentence.
There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.
A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.
And they do what they can. Try to learn to live with themselves, try to live rather than just existing.
It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything.' 'It's hard for a child to accept it too,
What sort of love is it if you hand someone over when it gets difficult?" she cries, her voice shaking with sorrow. "Abandon someone when there's
They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they'd never done anything wrong.
It's too painful to us to admit that our children won't wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things...
At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?
Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.
It's not natural rattling around the house on my own all day when you're not here. It's no way to live. That's all I have to say.
Because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes. And anyone who doesn't agree needs their head examined.
Don't fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.
Nine lives won't last you very long, will they?' says Ove. The cat licks its paw and looks as if it's not the sort of cat that likes to keep count.
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.
This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we're best. I know it's a game. But that's not all it is. Not always.
There are certainly a good number of
alternatives to "shit," if you have a particular need to express such a feeling.
alternatives to "shit," if you have a particular need to express such a feeling.
It wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living. Grief is a strange thing.
But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.
All over her face and sunglasses so big that one can't tell whether they're a pair of glasses or some kind of helmet.
When you know someone is keeping secrets from you it makes you feel like an idiot, and no one likes feeling like an idiot. Mum
But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead. Maybe
It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.
They wouldn't do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them." As if that's how oppression works. But
The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.
neither of them forgave themselves for not being able to give the women they loved more than anything what they wanted more than anything.
Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility.
To teach her that not all monsters are monsters in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.
Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he'd possessed.
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.