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41 " Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with. * "
― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)
42 " What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others. "
43 " You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then. "
44 " The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments? "
45 " The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying. "
46 " There are few words that are harder to explain than "loyalty." It's always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing. "
47 " One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are. "
48 " Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, "
49 " What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway. "
50 " It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything. "
51 " Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya’s word wasn’t enough. "
52 " Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?It is the sum total of our choices. "
53 " Loneliness is an invisible ailment. "
54 " Sometimes life doesn’t let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep. "
55 " And after all those hours in the locker room, all those nights on the team bus, all the conversations and all the jokes and the blood, sweat, and tears, the boy didn’t dare tell his coach his biggest secret.That’s betrayal. David knows it’s a huge betrayal. There’s no other way to explain how much a grown man must have failed as a person if such a warrior of a boy could believe that his coach would be less proud of him if he were gay.David hates himself for not being better than his dad. That’s the job of sons. "
56 " Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don't heal, they die. "
57 " Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul. "
58 " A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. * "
59 " There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports. "
60 " For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: “That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with. "