Fredrik Backman

“As long as he can remember he’s been terrified of corners, of being forgotten, left unacknowledged.”

— Fredrik Backman

“When you can accept the worst aspects of your teammates because you love the collective, that’s when you’re a team player.”

— Fredrik Backman

“And Ove’s wife does what she always does: nods and agrees that Ove is probably right. Then she goes around all winter…

— Fredrik Backman

“It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and…

— Fredrik Backman

“Just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That's all. But what the hell else is life made of?”

— Fredrik Backman

“The rush lifts him up, his endorphins are bubbling, and afterward he will remember thinking: “How can anyone possibly experience this without…

— Fredrik Backman

“All organizations like to boast that they’re building a culture, but when it comes down to it everyone really only cares about…

— Fredrik Backman

“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…

— Fredrik Backman

“In every time and every place, I’ve come across men who blame their own stupidity on crap they themselves have invented. ‘Religion…

— Fredrik Backman

“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything,…

— Fredrik Backman

“He believed so strongly in things: justice and fair play and hard work and a world where right just had to be…

— Fredrik Backman

“It's strange how quickly the significance of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the…

— Fredrik Backman

“I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take…

— Fredrik Backman

“People didn't know how to do that anymore, brew some proper coffee. In the same way as nowadays nobody could write with…

— Fredrik Backman

“Around them, the dawn gently wakes Borg like someone breathing into the ear of someone they love. With sun and promises. Tickling…

— Fredrik Backman

“Tickling light falls over warm duvets, like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and toasted bread. It shouldn't be doing this. It's…

— Fredrik Backman

“She imagined she'd like to explain that it's difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always…

— Fredrik Backman

“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

— Fredrik Backman

“You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime.”

— Fredrik Backman

“The two men look at each other. Once upon a time they were mentor and pupil. Once upon a time the love…

— Fredrik Backman

“perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a…

— Fredrik Backman

“neither of them forgave themselves for not being able to give the women they loved more than anything what they wanted more…

— Fredrik Backman

“The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.”

— Fredrik Backman

“She had a way of folding her index finger into his palm, hiding it inside. And he always felt that nothing in…

— Fredrik Backman

“Everyone has Stockholmers in their life, even people from Stockholm have their own Stockholmers. only to the it's 'people who live in…

— Fredrik Backman

“If she does everything right at work, things usually go as planned, but it doesn’t matter if she does absolutely everything in…

— Fredrik Backman

“Culture” is an odd word to use about hockey; everyone says it, but no one can explain what it means. All organizations…

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“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

“want to hurt those bastards so badly that they start meditating and trying to FIND THEMSELVES! They’ll turn vegetarian and be wearing…

— Fredrik Backman

“Because nowadays people are all thirty-one and wear too-tight trousers and no longer drink normal coffee. And don’t want to take responsibility.…

— Fredrik Backman

“One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when…

— Fredrik Backman

“Elsa heard one of the doctors at Mum’s hospital saying that Granny “could start a fight in an empty room,” but when…

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“You humans always think you’re ready to give your lives, but only until you understand what that really involves. You’re obsessed with…

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet…

— Fredrik Backman

“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as…

— Fredrik Backman

“You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,” she said to him once, when he asked her…

— Fredrik Backman

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark…

— Fredrik Backman