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1 " Is there any sort of situation where you can say with certainty that a single person is responsible for what happens? Everything in life is dependent on so many different factors that interact in so many different ways. "
― M.T. Edvardsson , A Nearly Normal Family
2 " Being a parent means never being able to relax. "
3 " I consider myself to be a good person. That sounds arrogant, of course, if not self-important or superior. But I don’t mean it like that. I’m a person with an abundance of failings, a person who has made innumerable mistakes and errors. I am acutely aware of this, and the first to admit it. What I mean is that I always act with good intentions, out of love and care. I have always wanted to do the right thing. "
4 " Death is seldom so tangible as when you can see how alive a person once was. "
5 " God is love. It’s wonderful to find someone you belong with. It might be God, it might be another human being. It might even be both. "
6 " Maybe sometimes all it takes to believe you’re in love is being appreciated and valued. Being seen for who you are, admired for your existence rather than your actions. "
7 " It takes a long time to build a life, but only an instant for it to crumble. It takes many years—decades, maybe a lifetime—to become the person you truly are. The path is almost always circuitous, and I think there’s a reason for that, for life to be built around trial and error. We are shaped and created by our trials. "
8 " I believe this is deeply human. There's no understanding it if you've never experienced a direct and serious threat to yourself and your loved ones. You make irrational decisions and overstep boundaries as you never would otherwise. A person who can no longer flee must fight. "
9 " She wanted to change the world. What could otherwise be the point of living? "
10 " For a few weeks in the last semester of my third year of high school I dated a guy named Klabbe, who did arms and chest in the gym four nights a week whenever he wasn’t driving back and forth between the two city squares in the BMW that ate up half his salary from the bread factory. He liked to call me Princess because I made him rinse the tobacco from his teeth before we kissed. "
11 " No failure in the world is comparable to being an inadequate parent. "
12 " When I was little, the adult world constantly told me I was a good girl.” Her face twisted as if she had tasted something nasty. I didn’t quite understand what she meant. “‘Good girl,’ they said, patting me on the head. ‘Ulrika’s such a good girl.’ In the end I had no choice but to become that good girl everyone was expecting.” I had never thought about it like that before. "
13 " She was a wanted, welcome baby; eagerly awaited and beloved long before she took her first breath. But she wasn’t planned. "
14 " Experience tells me that when you dislike someone on such vague grounds, the problem often rests with you. "
15 " If you start to believe you know, be wary. I think of life as a state of constant learning. "
16 " I never get used to the fact that people younger than I am can die. "
17 " Lying is an art that few people fully master. "
18 " She was the type of person who attracts attention without taking up too much space, who shines without being blinding. "
19 " Stop blaming yourself," I said. "Our hearts and our brains can both be good guides. Only in hindsight is it easy to see which pahs you never should have taken. "
20 " After all these years together, I could feel her skin as I felt my own. "
