“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I was once told that ‘You love soccer because it’s instinctive. If a ball comes rolling down the street you give it… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Why does Kira care about hockey? She doesn’t. She cares about a person who cares about hockey…” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The two men look at each other. Once upon a time they were mentor and pupil. Once upon a time the love… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Loving someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love with all the new… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it's in full flower. It works the same… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Loving someone is like moving into a house,” Sonja used to say. “At first you fall in love with all the new… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Don't people get married because they're full of love and then divorced when they run out of it?" (Elsa) "Did you learn… — 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
“Tell me that that’s what it’s like to fall in love, like you don’t have room for yourself in your own feet.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Sami went to town to protect someone who doesn’t deserve it, and Britt-Marie is getting ready to go home for the same… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It’s about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new,… — 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
“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
