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Beartown (Beartown, #1) QUOTES

Beartown (Beartown, #1) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

3 " Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

5 " What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

6 " The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

8 " The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

9 " Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

10 " The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They started to symbolize other things compensating for or reinforcing the parents' own failures. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

11 " Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

12 " Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

13 " Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

14 " It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

15 " She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.

Words are not small things. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

16 " She is told all the things she shouldn’t have done: She shouldn’t have waited so long before going to the police. She shouldn’t have gotten rid of the clothes she was wearing. Shouldn’t have showered. Shouldn’t have drunk alcohol. Shouldn’t have put herself in that situation. Shouldn’t have gone into the room, up the stairs, given him the impression. If only she hadn’t existed, then none of this would have happened, why didn’t she think of that? "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

17 " For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

18 " Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

19 " Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes. "

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)

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

― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)