329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.

Death does that to us, it's like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up. Now there's just an answering machine full of memories on the other end, fragments of a voice that are getting weaker and weaker.

His eyes flicker from Parvaneh by the sofa, with the defrosting cat in her arms and water dripping onto the floor, to the young man standing there with his torso bare in the middle of Ove's living room, the fat trembling over his chest down towards his knees, as if he were a big pack of ice cream that had first melted and then been refrozen.

And then there was a moment of silence. As if time was taking a deep breath.

Elle pense à Paris. C’est étonnant, le pouvoir que peut avoir un endroit où on n’est jamais allé.

Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'.

So many hearts broke the day Elsa was born. Shattered with such force by the wave that the shards of the glass were dispersed all around the world. Improbable catastrophes produce improbable things in people, improbable sorrow and improbable heroism.

This town needs to win at something. We need to feel, just once, that we’re best. I know it’s a game. But that’s not all it is. Not always.

Ed è difficile vivere senza chi se n'è andato. E' molto, molto difficile essere quello che deve rimanere a vivere senza chi se n'è andato.