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" When Knut was lying in his sickbed those last nights, she asked him: "Are you scared?" He replied: "Yes." Then his fingers ran through her hair and he added: "But it'll be quite nice to get a bit of peace and quiet. You can put that on the headstone." Estelle laughed hard at that. When he left her she wept so hard that she couldn't breathe. Her body was never really the same after that, she curled up and never quite unfurled again. "

Fredrik Backman , Anxious People


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Fredrik Backman quote : When Knut was lying in his sickbed those last nights, she asked him: