“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
“The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“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
“She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do… — 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
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?” — 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
“Just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That's all. But what the hell else is life made of?” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Back in the days when there were still things to boast about, the city council erected a sign beside the road at… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up… — 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
“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark… — 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… — 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
“The Noween is a prehistoric monster that wants everything to happen immediately. Every time a child says “in a minute” or “later”… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The journalist won’t say anything then; she’s too young, too concerned about her job, but she will remember the fear in their… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Never mess with someone who has more time than you do," Granny used to say.” — 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
“The human brain has a monstrous ability to re-create memories of such clarity that the rest of the body loses all sense… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“In every time and every place, I’ve come across men who blame their own stupidity on crap they themselves have invented. ‘Religion… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“David could get into an argument with a door, and Peter was so averse to conflict that he couldn't even kill time.” — 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
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart… — 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
“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
“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
