“We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live… — 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 ni on. Napravio joj je policu za knjige, a ona ju je ispunila knjigama ljudi koji su naširoko pisali o osećanjima. Uve se razumeo u stvari koje može da vidi i opipa. Beton i cement. Staklo… — 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 friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in… — 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 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
