Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 33 quotes from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman that I liked and saved while reading this book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
My Friends Quotes
- Little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think that teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.
- The worst way to vandalize art is actually to put a damn price tag on it.
- Rich adults hardly ever notice anything, apart from mirrors.
- Rich people love tiny food. Everything else should be big, except for taxes and sandwiches.
- Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us.
- Becoming a parent? Someone said it’s an invisible tidal wave that hits you with such force that you lose your breath and never quite get it back. You spend your whole life gasping.
- A child’s brain is peculiar, it interprets everything in its own way.
- Imagination is a child’s only weapon.
- Life is long. Everyone will tell you that it’s short, but they’re lying. It’s a long, long life.
- Our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that’s how we learn to figure out our horizons.
- Some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet.
- We’re a bunch of lonely apes on a rock in the universe, our breath consists of eighty percent nitrogen, twenty percent oxygen, and one hundred percent anxiety.
- Grief does so many strange things to people, and one of those things is that we forget how to breathe. As if the body’s first instinct is to grieve itself to death.
- Once upon a time, church bells used to ring for the dead, now it’s telephones, and the more they ring, the more important the person was. When a world-famous artist dies, phones ring on every continent, people talk about him on the news, people who have never met him cry. Art is so big, so unfathomable, that it teaches us to mourn for strangers.
- In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow.
- Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.
- Grief is a selfish bacteria, it demands all our attention.
- The world is extremely inventive, it has plenty of ways of breaking children.
- The ultimate expression of love is nagging, we don’t nag anyone the way we nag the people we love. All parents know that, and so do all best friends.
- Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it’s self-doubt that needs to be taught.
- Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about.
- Everyone always wants to know what great artists are going to do next, but for some artists it’s the other way round: they become so loved that eventually everyone wants to know what they created back at the start.
- Art is a moment. Art is being a reason. Art is coping with being alive for one more week.
- Death is public but dying is private, the very last private thing we have.
- Everyone wants me to paint more pictures, but only until they buy one, because then they hope that I never paint again. My art is only an investment now, everyone who owns a piece of me hopes I’ll die, because nothing is more valuable at auction than an unfulfilled life.
- You know you’re old when you have to use soap on your head and shampoo on your ass.
- It’s strange, the things you remember from your childhood, but perhaps what you forget is even stranger.
- Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.
- Everyone should be allowed to be fourteen for far longer than a year. There are so many other ages we could skip instead: thirty-nine, for instance.
- Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.
- Adults have to be adults so that children can be children.
- Art is coincidence. A beautiful painting is the sum total of a person, what has happened to them, blessings and curses alike. Coincidences.
- Evil is evil, you can’t fucking balance it out with a few good deeds, it isn’t a fucking soccer match!