Fredrik Backman

“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

— Fredrik Backman

“If Peter has learned one thing about human nature during all his years in hockey, it’s that almost everyone regards themselves as…

— Fredrik Backman

“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

“Uve je dobro znao da njeni prijatelji nisu shvatali zbog čega se onda svakog jutra budila sa odlukom da provede dan sa…

— Fredrik Backman

“Somebody has one of the worst hairstyles Britt-Marie has ever laid eyes on, as if she’s combed her hair with a terrified…

— Fredrik Backman

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and…

— Fredrik Backman

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark…

— Fredrik Backman

“The girl glances at the surface of the desk, which looks as if toddlers have been trying to eat potatoes off it.…

— Fredrik Backman

“Mnogim ljudima je teško da žive sa nekim ko ceni samoću. To neprijatno žulja one koji nisu i sami takvi.”

— Fredrik Backman

“But his taste buds are as dysfunctional as the volume control on his voice.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Throughout their childhood Maya loved her best friend because she wasn’t like any other girl she had met, but life as a…

— Fredrik Backman

“For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as…

— Fredrik Backman

“His heart is too big.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Back in the days when there were still things to boast about, the city council erected a sign beside the road at…

— Fredrik Backman

“And after all those hours in the locker room, all those nights on the team bus, all the conversations and all the…

— Fredrik Backman

“All his life Bobo has wanted just one thing to be allowed to belong to something.”

— Fredrik Backman

“She imagined she'd like to explain that it's difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always…

— Fredrik Backman

“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Maya goes into the bathroom and looks at herself in the mirror. Astonished at how strong she has learned to pretend to…

— Fredrik Backman

“All roads lead to something you were always predestined to do." And for her, perhaps, it was something. But for Ove it…

— Fredrik Backman

“A time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he is going to be.”

— Fredrik Backman

“We love winners, even though they’re very rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter.…

— Fredrik Backman

“While he was growing up everyone kept telling him he was going to turn professional, and he believed them so intensely that…

— Fredrik Backman

“You can't start drilling after dark, everyone knows that. He'd have to turn on all the lights and no one could say…

— Fredrik Backman

“You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime.”

— Fredrik Backman