329 Quotes by Fredrik Backman

...riguardo al tempo, in fondo, siamo tutti degli ottimisti: crediamo che ci sarà sempre un'altra occasione per fare, o per dire, le cose che ci stanno a cuore. Poi l'irreparabile accade e si cominciano a usare espressioni come: "Se soltanto".

Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn't feel like it's ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don't know how, because it's so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.

They say Im to little to play. Become good player any way!

Why does Kira care about hockey? She doesn’t. She cares about a person who cares about hockey…

The great thing about scrutinizing bureaucracy when you’re a journalist, you see, is that the first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves

And then she left him alone in a world where he no longer understood the language.

She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy," Granny used to say.

It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.

Non avevano mai molto, ma avevano sempre abbastanza.