329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

Căci nu toți monștri sunt monștri de la bun început-unii sunt monștri din tristețe.

People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical. One is a wound, the other an amputated limb, a withered petal compared to a snapped stem.

He presses his thumbs hard against his eyebrows, as if he hopes they're two buttons and if he keeps them pressed at the same time for ten seconds he'll be able to restore life to its factory settings.

Visele sunt fursecuri. Îmbrățișările sunt obișnuite,

Like when you see a celebrity in a cafe and instinctively burst out, "Oh, hi there!" before you realize that your brain has had time to tell you, "Hey, that's probably someone you know, say hi!" but not, "No wait, it's just that guy from the TV!" Because your brain likes to make you look like an idiot.

Ove is fifty-nine.

Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.

Grateful, grateful, grateful. That’s the role of mothers. But the role of children is to dream.

A boy who cares too little about the future and frets too much about the past: nothing could depress a mother more.