Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Tag: Quotes by Fredrik Backman
Grief is a selfish bacteria, it …
Grief is a selfish bacteria, it demands all our attention.
– from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
The worst thing a divorce does …
The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
It’s a strange thing, becoming an …
It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of loneliness.
– from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Most people don’t do what we …
Most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
When terrible things happen, most people …
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.
– from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Art is a moment. Art is …
Art is a moment. Art is being a reason. Art is coping with being alive for one more week.
– from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
Life is so damn, damn, damn …
Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
– from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Do you know what the worst …
Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you’re forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
There’s such an unbelievable amount that …
There’s such an unbelievable amount that we’re all supposed to be able to cope with these days. You’re supposed to have a job, and somewhere to live, and a family, and you’re supposed to pay taxes and have clean underwear and remember the password to your damn Wi-Fi. Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman