329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

Everyone has Stockholmers in their life, even people from Stockholm have their own Stockholmers. only to the it's 'people who live in New York' or 'politicians in Brussels', or other people from some other place where people seem to think that they're better than the Stockholmers think they are.

Sometimes 'Stockholm' can actually be a compliment: a dream of somewhere bigger, where we can become someone else. Something that we long for but don't quite dare to do.

Stockholm' is, after all, an expression more than it is a place, both for men like Roger and for most of the rest of us, just a symbolic word to denote all the irritating people who get in the way of our happiness.

Everyone who doesn't see us, doesn't understand us, doesn't care about us.

There's no hope for these boys and girls, the headmaster soberly explained in the interview. This is not education, this is storage. Maybe Sonja (disabled) understood how it felt to be described as such. The vacant position only attracted one applicant, and she go thtose boys and girls to read Shakespeare.

When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it. That you have to have opinions all the time, you have to decide which party to vote for and what wallpaper you like and what your sexual preferences are and which flavour yoghurt best reflects your personality. You have to make choices and be chosen by others, every second, the whole time.

When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it.

Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.