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141 " He tries to calm down and apologize but is suffocated by everything else he’s feeling, and the only thing that comes out is “You know what I mean... "
― Fredrik Backman , Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
142 " Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it's almost unbearable. Even if that's the way it's supposed to be. "
143 " Lack of respect is like sparks in a summer forest; if you don't trample them out at once, the fire spreads until you find yourself surrounded. "
144 " The only thing you can rely on in all towns, big and small alike, is that there will be broken people. It's nothing to do with the place, just life; it can beat us up. And if that happens, it's easy to find your way to a pub; bars can quickly become sad places. Someone who has nowhere else to go can grasp a glass a little too tightly; someone who's tired of falling can take refuge in the bottom of a bottle, seeing as you can't fall much further from there. "
145 " He taught him that love isn’t enough. That’s a terrible thing to learn when you’re seven years old. Or at any age. "
146 " We rarely take out our anger on those who deserve it; we just take it out on whoever is standing closest. "
147 " Men! You know why you can never rely on men? Because they love men! No one loves men as much as men do, Kira! They can’t even watch sports if it’s not being played by men! Sweaty, panting men fighting against other men, with ten thousand men in the stands, that’s what men want. I bet you they’ll soon invent a type of porn featuring nothing but men but aimed at heterosexual men who don’t really get turned on by men but don’t think women are actually capable of having sex properly! "
148 " 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. "
149 " The hardest thing about having a family is that you are never finished. "
150 " She doesn't know why, but she's thinking a lot about her parents this summer. When you're a teenager, you want them to be sexless, but somewhere along the way the smallest memories of affection between our parents get imprinted on our DNA. Parents who divorce, like Ana's, can stop a child believing in eternal love. Parents who stick together for a lifetime can make a child take it for granted instead. "
151 " 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. "
152 " 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. "
153 " - Har du fått i dig frukost, pojk? Det är dagens viktigaste öl. Säkert bra för huden också, massor av vitaminer. "
154 " Ramonas röst är på samma gång beklagande och irriterad, som om hon är på väg att berätta att försäljarens katt blivit överkörd men att det faktiskt mest var jobbigt för Ramona eftersom det lilla kräket hoppade undan de första två gångerna hon försökte. "
155 " Maya’s notebooks are under the bed, full of poems and song lyrics, and he reads them through different types of tears. Sometimes hers, sometimes his own. "
156 " It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an attack, we donate money after a disaster, we lay our hearts bare online. But for every step forward we take, we take an almost equally large step back. Seen over time, every change is so slow that it’s barely visible when it’s happening. "
157 " No one bows their heads around here, for the simple reason that many of our worst deeds are the result of our 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. "
158 " The greater the mistake and the worse the consequences, the more pride we stand to lose if we back down. So no one does. "
159 " Grief is a wild animal that drags us so far out into the darkness that we can’t imagine ever getting home again. Ever laughing again. It hurts in such a way that you can never really figure out if it actually passes or if you just get used to it. "
160 " His team gathers in a semicircle beneath the trees, waiting for trouble. But they’re too big, too strong; everyone on the beach goes to the same school, so nobody dares. The beach belongs to Lyt after that. It is divided in the way that all worlds are divided between people: between those who are listened to and those who aren’t. "