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41 " Lies are simple; truth is difficult. "
― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
42 " He had no team. So they gave him an army. "
43 " Fathers need to seize the day, because childhoods are like soap bubbles; you get only a few seconds to enjoy them. "
44 " It's so easy to think that what we post online is like raising your voice in a living room when it's actually more like shouting from the rooftops. Our fantasy worlds always have consequences for other people's realities. "
45 " Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who are like everyone else, who belong to the norm, the majority, can’t possibly understand it. "
46 " It’s impossible to measure love, but that doesn’t stop us coming up with new ways to try. One of the simplest is space: How much space am I prepared to give the person that you are so that you can become the person you want to become? "
47 " You asked "Am I a good mother?," always the same, the same......answer that you were seeking, when you should have known thatYou were the strength insideYou were all that I could becomeYou taught me the value of "sorry," but the only time you retreated was when you were taking aimYou taught me the humility of tears but never let me apologize for existingYou didn't dress me up in fragile garments, you gave me armorYou taught me that daughters don't have to have dreams-we can have goals. "
48 " Because people are always dependent upon other people, and we can’t ever really forgive one another for that. "
49 " Do you remember when the children were really small, Fatima? When you'd get to preschool and they'd run toward you and literally jump up into your arms? Jump with complete abandon because they trusted us to catch them, that's my favourite moment in the whole world. "
50 " Women are always the problem in the men’s world. "
51 " Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. We’ll end up saying that violence came to Beartown this summer, but that will be a lie; the violence was already here. Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. "
52 " Morality is a luxury. "
53 " You can force people to obey you, but you can never force them to follow you. If you want them to play for you, they have to love you. "
54 " Do you think it’s possible to become a different person?"She shakes her head, biting her bottom lip, and blinks so hard she can’t see the road in front of her. "No. But it’s possible to become a better person." Then he holds out a trembling hand. She holds it as if he were three years old, as if he were dangling over the edge of a cliff. "
55 " Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” The mountaineer replied in bemusement, as if the question was ridiculous and the answer obvious, “Because it’s there.” Kira understood then, because why had she wanted to go to university when no one else in her family had been? Why had she chosen law when everyone had told her it would be too hard? Why? To find out if she could do it. Because she wanted to climb that damn mountain. Because it was there. "
56 " The worst thing we know about other people is that we're dependent on 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. "
57 " 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. "
58 " sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. "
59 " It's always so easy to say what everyone should have done when you know that what they actually did didn't work. "
60 " I don't want you to take me places, I want you to back me up so I can get there myself! "