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Us Against You (Beartown, #2) QUOTES

Us Against You (Beartown, #2) QUOTES

1 " One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

2 " Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

3 " At some point almost everyone makes a choice. Some of us don't even notice it happening, most don't get to plan it in advance, but there's always a moment when we take one path instead of another, which has consequences for the rest of our lives. It determines the people we will become, in other people's eyes as well as our own. Elizabeth Zackell may have been right when she said that anyone who feels responsibility isn't free. Because responsibility is a burden. Freedom is a pleasure. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

4 " Mamos darbai gali prilygti darbui, kai reikia nusausinti namo pamatus arba pakeisti stogą: tam reikia laiko, pastangų ir pinigų, bet kai baigi - viskas atrodo lygiai taip pat kaip prieš tai. Už tai pagyrimų negauni. O jei paslieki ilgiau biure, tai tas pat kaip pakabinti gražų paveikslą arba naują šviestuvą - tada visi mato. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

5 " It's so easy to get people to hate one another. That's what makes love so impossible to understand. Hate is so simple that it always ought to win. It's an uneven fight. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

6 " There’s a loser in every relationship. We may not like to admit it, but one of us always gets a little more and one of us always gives up a little more readily. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

7 " Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

8 " The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

9 " He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

10 " The worst thing we know about other people is that we’re dependent upon them. That their actions affect our lives. Not just the people we choose, the people we like, but all the rest of them: the idiots. You who stand in front of us in every line, who can’t drive properly, who like bad television shows and talk too loud in restaurants and whose kids infect our kids with the winter vomiting bug at preschool. You who park badly and steal our jobs and vote for the wrong party. You also influence our lives, every second. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

11 " Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

12 " Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

13 " It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

14 " Culture isn't just what we encourage but what we allow to happen. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

15 " They run only where there are lights. They don’t say anything but are both thinking the same thing: guys never think about light, it just isn’t a problem in their lives. When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

16 " I wish you courage
I wish you rushing blood
A heart that beats too hard
Feelings that make everything too hard
Love that gets out of control
The most intense adventures
I hope you find your way out
I hope you’re the kind of person
Who gets a happy ending "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

17 " What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

18 " Anxiety. It owns us but leaves no trace. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

19 " Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

20 " The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways. "

― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)