329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.

It’s a peculiar sort of angst, the one he lives with, knowing that you had the greatest moment in your life at the age of seventeen. While he was growing up everyone kept telling him

Music is like taking a break from yourself

One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we're far more inclined to carry one even faster

I believe the one that says that if you do it for long enough, it can become impossible to tell the difference between flying and falling

Alcoholics don't have unopened bottles of wine in the house. They have empty wine bottles

You need psychology if you think you're a dolphin. You need psychiatry if you've killed all the dolphins

You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!