329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

But she's going to see the world and she's going to feel the wind in her hair. And she's going to solve all her crosswords in ink.

Even if Kevin is no longer in Beartown, they still have to reclaim the things he stole. Twilight. Solitude. The courage to wear earbuds when it's dark, the freedom to not look over your shoulder the whole time.

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

Don´t worry about others, you have enough problems of your own.

People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.

He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy.

We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.

The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves.

Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.