5 Quotes by Frederik Backman

At the end of your career you're trying to find a point to it all, and at the start of it you're looking for a purpose.

Sometimes it's nice if someone says it tastes good without you having to ask every time, you get what I mean?

You don't fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot." Anna-Lena started laughing as well, much louder than she usually did. Then they looked at each other. Anna-Lena was twice Julia's age but they had a lot in common just then. Both married to idiots who didn't know the difference between different types of hair.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.