“All his life Bobo has wanted just one thing to be allowed to belong to something.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“A time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he is going to be.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That's all. But what the hell else is life made of?” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I, who had wanted to live a life high above everyone else, ended up with a son who would rather live deep… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier than trying to hold… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“And time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us. A few… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It’s hard not to want to go back to your normal life once you know how difficult it is to start again.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“He can’t understand people who long to retire. How can anyone spend their whole life longing for the day when they become… — 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
“You are what you are and you do what you do, and that was good enough.” — 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
“My mother worked for the social services all her life. She always said that in the middle of all the crap, in… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Any living thing that is kept behind bars for long enough eventually becomes more scared of the unknown than its own captivity.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“When people don’t talk so much they don’t dish out the crap either.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“There are no “only” nightmares—they’re living creatures, dark little clouds of insecurity and anguish that come sneaking between the houses when everyone… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“If you spend your whole life being someone else, who will be you?” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I looked you in the eye and said: “Life isn’t fair.” You bit your lip. Lowered your eyes and replied: “Lucky for… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.” — 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
