City council Quote by Fredrik Backman

“they don’t want a modern Beartown, because they know that a modern Beartown won’t want them.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Bears shit in the woods, and everyone shits on Beartown”

— Fredrik Backman

“My stomach turns the closer I get to my destination. The forest on both sides of the road runs deep and dark. There’s still…

— Z.L. Arkadie

“We arrived at Council Bluffs at dawn; I looked out. All winter I’d been reading of the great wagon parties that held council there…

— Jack Kerouac

“we had more people begging for snow than those that had bet on a white Christmas”

— David Clark

“Marion's town slogan was "Where Main Street Meets Mountain." That was one of the reasons she'd loved the town, with the nearby woods, its…

— Cindi Madsen

“Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

— Ray Bradbury

“A young man left Beartown in silence and when he came home again it was too late for words. You can’t look a gravestone…

— Fredrik Backman

“The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond…

— Robert Liparulo

“A cluster of houses lay about three miles down this joke of a road, and a hand-painted sign read: WELCOME TO SHIFTERTOWN! POPULATION: FIFTY-TWO…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Through these uncharted roads, I hope to escape my recollections; I am so tired of seeing signboards, and following the same directions.”

— Akash Mandal

“We don't want to leave footprints in the snow," we'd say, even though in our town it never snowed.”

— Mariana Enríquez