329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

There's someone in my school who has many boyfriends," states Elsa. 'Oh, well I wouldn't want to suggest that the girl in your class is a-' says Mum, feverishly backtracking. "He's a boy." Elsa corrects. Mum looks confused. Elsa shrugs. "It's complicated," she says.

En ung man lämnade Björnstad i tystnad och när han kom hem igen var det för sent för ord. Man kan inte se gravstenar i ögonen och be om ursäkt.

C’était le monde qui avait du mal à la voir.

Once you're older, you'll realize that I made an endless line of mistakes during your childhood. I know that. I've resigned myself to it. But I just want you to know that I did my very, very best. I left it all on the field. I ave every ounce of everything I had.I googled like hell.But it was really, really, really dark in there. And there was poop . . . everywhere. Sometimes, you just have to follow your gut. Honestly, you should be happy we even got out of there alive.

A year ago she sprained her ankle on a field trip and he had to carry her from the car to the house again. He has never felt more like a bad parent that when he admitted to himself that he wished she could sprain her ankle more often.

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.

Maya is silent for a long time, then asks, 'Do you want boys or girls?'Ana replies as if she's spent her whole life thinking about this, 'Boys.''Why?''Because the world is kind of shitty toward them sometimes. But it treats us like that nearly all the time.

When Granny was headed for some far-off place, you could only be sure of one thing: that it was a place everyone else was trying to get away from. And if anyone asked her why she was doing it, she'd answer, "I'm a doctor, for God's sake, and ever since I became one I've not allowed myself the luxury of choosing whose life I should be saving.

De todo lo que creía que echaría de menos de su mujer, lo que más le gustaría poder hacer otra vez de verdad es precisamente eso. Cogerla de la mano