“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“What feels comfortable for the parents isn't what's best for the child...” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“That's why we get the chance to spoil our grandchildren, because by doing that we're apologizing to our children.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“That’s what parents often do, I think, we persuade ourselves we’re doing everything for the sake of the child. It’s too painful… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The children’s hobbies aren’t only the children’s hobbies—the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much,… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“occasions, the way she would wipe the tears from her children’s cheeks and whisper: “No one ever said life was going to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“No one ever said life was going to be easy.” Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“There are people who say that children don't behave the way adults tell them to, but the way they see adults behave.… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it’s that almost everyone regards themselves as a good… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“That’s what parents often do, I think, we persuade ourselves we’re doing everything for the sake of the child. It’s too painful to us… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Uve je dobro znao da njeni prijatelji nisu shvatali zbog čega se onda svakog jutra budila sa odlukom da provede dan sa njim. Nije… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Somebody has one of the worst hairstyles Britt-Marie has ever laid eyes on, as if she’s combed her hair with a terrified animal.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“The girl glances at the surface of the desk, which looks as if toddlers have been trying to eat potatoes off it. With pitchforks.… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Mnogim ljudima je teško da žive sa nekim ko ceni samoću. To neprijatno žulja one koji nisu i sami takvi.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“But his taste buds are as dysfunctional as the volume control on his voice.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Throughout their childhood Maya loved her best friend because she wasn’t like any other girl she had met, but life as a teenager seems… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“Back in the days when there were still things to boast about, the city council erected a sign beside the road at the entrance… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
“And after all those hours in the locker room, all those nights on the team bus, all the conversations and all the jokes and… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share
