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101 " Memory loss is one of the finest things sports can give us. "
― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
102 " Every large group you don't yourself belong to is a threat. "
103 " I don’t believe in violence, Leo, because my dad used to hit me if I so much as spilled a bit of milk. That didn’t teach me not to spill milk, it just made me afraid of milk.” He doesn’t know if Leo "
104 " Sometimes you have to laugh at the crap, that’s how you make it bearable. "
105 " A lone fly can't overturn a single teacup, but a fly buzzing in the ear of a bull until the bull panics and rushes into a china shop in a rage can accomplish any amount of devastation. "
106 " No one bows their heads round here, for the simple reason that many of our worst deeds are the result of us never wanting to admit that we’re wrong. The greater the mistake and the worse the consequences, the more pride we stand to lose if we back down. "
107 " When terrible things happen, most people become waves, but some people become rocks. Waves are tossed back and forth when the wind comes, but the rocks just take a beating, immovable, waiting for the storm to blow over. "
108 " Sons want their fathers’ attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons’. From then on we’re all doomed to wish that we’d fallen asleep beside them more often, while their head could still fit on our chest. That we’d spent more time sitting on the floor while they were playing. Hugged them while they still let us. "
109 " Men don't know their own weight, they don't understand the physical terror they can instill in another person simply by tumbling through a door. "
110 " 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. Now there's just an answering machine full of memories on the other end, fragments of a voice that are getting weaker and weaker. "
111 " Because for an outsider to win power requires a conflict. But if there’s no conflict? You have to create one. "
112 " Maya is silent for a long time, then asks, “Do you want boys or girls?” Ana replies as if she’s spent her whole life thinking about this, “Boys.” “Why?” “Because the world is kind of shitty toward them sometimes. But it treats us like that nearly all the time. "
113 " Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. "
114 " You can always be absolutely certain of one thing when it comes to power, Peter: no one who gets their hands on it ever lets go of it voluntarily. "
115 " Everyone wants to get paid, the only difference is preferred currency "
116 " Even if Kevin is no longer in Beartown, they still have to reclaim the things he stole. Twilight. Solitude. The courage to wear earbuds when it's dark, the freedom to not look over your shoulder the whole time. "
117 " 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. How can they? "
118 " It’s just possible that there are more normal love stories. "
119 " Do you want to hear something silly? You know you’re always telling me I’ll never find a girlfriend because my demands are too high? That’s your fault. Because I want someone who looks at me the way you and Dad look at each other. "
120 " I’m just . . . I’m so fucking terrified sometimes that it’s never going to be okay,” she pants. Jeanette doesn’t know how to reply, either as a teacher or as a human being, so she says the only thing she can think to say as a coach: “Are you tired?” “No.” “Then let’s go again! "