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121 " Everyone has their own struggle. "
― Fredrik Backman , Beartown (Beartown, #1)
122 " 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. "
123 " The worst thing about having power over other people’s lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. "
124 " Hockey is a simple sport: when your desire to win is stronger than your fear of losing, you have a chance. No one wins when they’re frightened. "
125 " If she does everything right at work, things usually go as planned, but it doesn’t matter if she does absolutely everything in the universe correctly as a mother: the very worst can still happen. "
126 " There will always be people who won't understand his decision. Who will call him weak or dishonest or disloyal. They are probably people who live secure lives, who are surrounded by people who share their own opinions and only talk to people who reinforce their own worldview. It's easy for them to judge him - it's always easier to lecture other people about morality when you've never had to answer for anything yourself. "
127 " When you can accept the worst aspects of your teammates because you love the collective, that’s when you’re a team player. "
128 " I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this a bit too seriously. If we aren't putting too much pressure on the juniors. They're not really much more than ... kids."..."That depends what we want from the kids. And what the kids want from hockey. "
129 " You can get almost anything to look normal if you make enough comparisons. "
130 " Words are small things. No one means any harm by them, they keep saying that.... Words are not small things". "
131 " All his life Bobo has wanted just one thing to be allowed to belong to something. "
132 " The hardest thing about trusting teenagers is the fact that we used to be teenagers ourselves. "
133 " People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls. "
134 " Jokes are powerful like that, they can be both inclusive and exclusive. Can create both an Us and a Them. "
135 " Maya would wake up with the body language of a sleepy calf; Ana like a drunk, angry middle-aged man who was trying to find his pistol. "
136 " After the funeral Peter couldn’t find a way back out of himself—the pain became too great for him to move at all. "
137 " She's very keen on justice and equality, Lyt's mother, so long as they're based on her precise interpretation of those words. "
138 " We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger. "
139 " She wants to scream so loud that all the other neighbors here in the Heights can hear it too. Scream that she loves hockey. LOVES hockey! But she's a girl, so what happens if she says that to a boy? He says: 'Really? You're a girl and you like hockey? Okay! Who won the Stanley Cup in 1983, then? Well? And who came seventh in the league in 1994? Well? If you like hockey you ought to be able to answer that. "
140 " Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing. "