329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

Around them, the dawn gently wakes Borg like someone breathing into the ear of someone they love. With sun and promises. Tickling light falls over warm duvets, like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and toasted bread. It shouldn't be doing this. It's the wrong day to be beautiful, but the dawn doesn't care.

She often said that “all roads lead to something you were alwayspredestined to do.” And for her, perhaps, it was something.But for Ove it was someone.

There’s a loser in every relationship. We may not like to admit it, but one of us always gets a little more and one of us always gives up a little more readily.

He must be close to six and a half feet tall. Ove feels and instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.

Especially if it wasn't just a fling, but an affair that had been going on for a long time. You haven't only been cheated on, you've also been deceived. It's possible for someone to be unfaithful to you without really thinking about you at all, but an affair requires planning.

David thought about that [Values] for a long while before asking: "What about culture, then?" Sune looked more serious, choosing his words carefully. In the end he said: "For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit."David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: "That most people don't do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.

Elsa thinks about how Granny used to say, 'You have standards and I have double standards, and so I win.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.

She is told all the things she shouldn’t have done: She shouldn’t have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldn’t have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldn’t have showered. Shouldn’t have drunk alcohol. Shouldn’t have put herself in that situation. Shouldn’t have gone into the room, up the stairs, given him the impression. If only she hadn’t existed, then none of this would have happened, why didn’t she think of that?