Hockey team Quote by Fredrik Backman

““It’s just that Sune is no longer sure that’s all a hockey team should consist of: boys who never lose.””

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

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“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…

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“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…

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“Uve je dobro znao da njeni prijatelji nisu shvatali zbog čega se onda svakog jutra budila sa odlukom da provede dan sa njim. Nije ni on. Napravio joj je policu za knjige, a ona ju je ispunila knjigama ljudi koji su naširoko pisali o osećanjima. Uve se razumeo u stvari koje može da vidi i opipa. Beton i cement. Staklo…

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“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.”

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“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in…

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

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

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

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

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“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…

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

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“I remember not belonging. I was always Summer’s older sister—the plain one with the red hair and a gap between her front teeth. The first boy I had a crush on said my teeth looked like piano keys. My smile hid behind by hand until one day the captain of the hockey team said I looked like Madonna. It was…

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