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1 " She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life. "
― Fredrik Backman , A Man Called Ove
2 " He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced. "
3 " One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. "
― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
4 " Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. "
5 " One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened. "
― Fredrik Backman , Britt-Marie Was Here
6 " The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back. "
― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)
7 " Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride. "
8 " Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders. "
9 " We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her. "
― Fredrik Backman
10 " Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. "
― Fredrik Backman , Anxious People
11 " At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life? "
12 " Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts. "
13 " In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do. "
― Fredrik Backman , My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
14 " You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends. "
15 " Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof. "
16 " Around them, the dawn gently wakes Borg like someone breathing into the ear of someone they love. With sun and promises. Tickling light falls over warm duvets, like the smell of freshly brewed coffee and toasted bread. It shouldn't be doing this. It's the wrong day to be beautiful, but the dawn doesn't care. "
17 " What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices. "
18 " The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. "
19 " One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say. "
20 " Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things. "
