“What feels comfortable for the parents isn't what's best for the child...” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It’s hard for a parent to accept that you can’t protect your child from everything.’ ‘It’s hard for a child to accept… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“perhaps all parents feel this way, but the only thing Kira has ever wanted for her kids was health, safety, and a… — 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… — 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
“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
“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
“Takoví jsou to muži. Za svítání vyjdou s dvěma holýma rukama na trávník a dovnitř se vrátí z nově postavené verandy. Jakože… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The children’s hobbies aren’t only the children’s hobbies—the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much,… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
