“It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it’s burdened by a grief too large to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“That’s always the way with sons of fathers who liked whisky a little too much: you either drink it all the time… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“She knows they mean no harm by it, but come on! No seven-year-old who has seen films about the Italian Mafia wants… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last… — 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 Image
“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 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 to us… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Mnogim ljudima je teško da žive sa nekim ko ceni samoću. To neprijatno žulja one koji nisu i sami takvi.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“But his taste buds are as dysfunctional as the volume control on his voice.” — 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 teenager seems… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
