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61 " A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible. "
― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
62 " but the worst thing about paranoia is that the only way to prove you’re not paranoid is to be proved right. "
63 " Masculinity is complicated when you’re twelve. And at every other age, too. "
64 " The only thing I know how to do is to treat everyone fairly, not treat them all the same. "
65 " So why the hell do you want to sleep in the bottom bunk, then?' Teemu asked. Vidar sniffed. 'So the monsters will get me first and you have time to escape! "
66 " Той е на дванайсет и това лято ще се научи, че хората винаги предпочитат простите лъжи пред сложните истини, защото лъжите имат едно ненадминато предимство: истината трябва да обясни всичко случило се, докато лъжата трябва просто да звучи достоверно "
67 " We rarely know why a society’s bureaucracy works the way it does, because it’s impossible to charge anyone with corruption when everything could just as easily be blamed on incompetence. "
68 " If you want to know why people sacrifice everything for love, you have to start by asking how they fell in love. Sometimes it doesn't take anything at all for us to start loving something. Just time. "
69 " You can’t cultivate that sort of friendship, it only grows in the wild. "
70 " I think it's more important to nurture human beings than to foster stars. "
71 " It can be an unbearable sorrow for someone to know that he’s regarded as such a wild animal in other people’s eyes. "
72 " The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways "
73 " 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. Dear God, how we hate you for that. "
74 " when reality is hell we need stories, because they make us feel that if we can just be best at one thing, perhaps everything else will turn and start to go our way, too. "
75 " Violence is the easiest and the hardest thing in the world to understand. Some of us are prepared to use it to get power, others only in self-defense, some all the time, others not at all. But then there's another type, unlike all the others, who seems to fight entirely without purpose. Ask anyone who has looked into a pair of those eyes when they turn dark, and you'll realize that we belong to different species. No one can really know if those people lack something that other people possess or if it's the other way around. If something goes out inside them when they clench their fists or if something switches on. "
76 " If anyone condemns Amat for giving the offer serious consideration, that person has lived a life where morality is easy. It never is. Morality is a luxury. "
77 " The idiots won’t say it was Kevin who killed Beartown Ice Hockey; they’ll say that “the scandal” killed the club. Because their real problem isn’t that Kevin raped someone but that Maya got raped. If she hadn’t existed, it wouldn’t have happened. Women are always the problem in the men’s world. "
78 " Why does anyone love team sports? Because we want to be part of a group? For some people the answer is simply that a team is a family. For anyone who needs an extra one or never had one in the first place. "
79 " How old do we have to be to be held accountable for our actions, even when the consequences end up being so infinitely worse than we imagine? "
80 " Our spontaneous reactions are rarely our proudest moments. It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts? "