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
Tag: Quotes from Anxious People book
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
You can’t live long with the …
You can’t live long with the ones who are only beautiful. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime!
– from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman