329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

It's unbearably cold standing in the shade of someone who's a bit more popular than you are.

He knew very well that some people thought he was nothing but a grumpy old soul without any faith in people. But to put it bluntly, that was because people had never given him reason to see it another way.Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk over him, or not.

Maar het universum heeft jullie Noah gegeven. Hij is een brug. Daarom krijgen we de kans om onze kleinkinderen te verwennen, want daarmee zeggen we sorry tegen onze kinderen.

Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild's ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact. A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.

You never say good-bye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say "see you later". It's important to people in the Land-of-Almost-Awake that it should be this way, because they believe that nothing really ever completely dies. It just turns into a story, undergoes a little shift in grammar, changes tense from "now" to "then".

He'd discovered that he liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable. They could be calculated and drawn on paper. They did not leak if they were made water tight, they did not collapse if they were properly supported. Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people.

I think he needs help.It's hard to help those who don't want to help themselves.Someone who wants to help himself is possibly not the one who most needs help from others.

There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.

The Lanky One, by means of subtle gestures and signs, seems to want to convey to the woman that this is not quite as easy as it looks. The woman, with gestures that are comparatively unsubtle, seems to want to convey that it might have something to do with the moronic nature of the Lanky One in question.