“There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“You want to punch a man in the face, but still refuse to let anyone hurt his children.” — 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
“You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up… — 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
“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
“There's an obvious difference between the children who live in homes where the money can run out and the ones who don't.… — 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
“When children are young you think it will pass, the guilty feeling you get in your stomach when you leave home each… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything,… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Her mom sometimes whispers in her daughter's ear: "Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Her father had never bothered with books, but when his daughter sat reading the newspaper at the age of five he wasn’t… — 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
“That wears a person down in the end. It’s not always obvious, because the people around a bullied child assume that he… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It’s just as easy to be exclusive as it is to be inclusive, just as easy to create an Us as a… — 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
“Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Throughout their childhood Maya loved her best friend because she wasn’t like any other girl she had met, but life as a… — 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… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Ove kept exactly to every speed limit, even on that 35 mph road where the recently arrived idiots in suits came tanking… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“All their lives, girls are told that the only thing they need to do is their best. That that will be enough,… — 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
