Grief is a selfish bacteria, it demands all our attention.
– from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
Tag: Quotes by Fredrik Backman
Most people don’t do what we …
Most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
You can’t live long with the …
You can’t live long with the ones who are only beautiful. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime!
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
There’s such an unbelievable amount that …
There’s such an unbelievable amount that we’re all supposed to be able to cope with these days. You’re supposed to have a job, and somewhere to live, and a family, and you’re supposed to pay taxes and have clean underwear and remember the password to your damn Wi-Fi. Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Being a parent makes you feel …
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
It’s a strange thing, becoming an …
It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of loneliness.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
The first people to break the …
The first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Our teenage years have to simultaneously …
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.
– from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
Do you know what the worst …
Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you’re forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman