329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

...quando una persona ti regala un LIBRO (che forse hai già letto), davanti a lei devi fingere di non averlo letto, perchè il vero regalo è poter donare un'esperienza di lettura, non riceverla.

When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]

You end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.

Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.

Very few people have that effect. Very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.

You don’t have to lead by telling other people what to do, you can lead by just letting them do what they’re capable of instead.

Ove could not in all honesty remember how it all started. It wasn't the sort of dispute where you did remember. It was more an argument where the little disagreements had ended up so entangled that every new word was treacherously booby-trapped, and in the end it wasn't possible to open one's mouth at all without setting off at least four unexploded mines from earlier conflicts. It was the sort of argument that had just run, and run, and run. Until one day it just ran out.

Because that was a parent's job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they're little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure. They trust us, which is a crushing responsibility, because they haven't yet realized that we don't actually know what we're doing.

Now you will have to cry in cupboard, because children get frightened if you cry in front of them.