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Fredrik Backman Quote: “One of the last times she met her neighbor in the elevator he gave her a very thick book, written by a man. He had underlined one sentence, several hundred pages in: We are asleep until we fall in love. Estelle gave him a book in exchange, one written by a woman, so it didn’t need hundreds of pages to say things. Close to the start Estelle had underlined: Love is wanting you to exist.”

101. “One of the last times she met her neighbor in the elevator he gave her a very thick book, written by a man. He had underlined one sentence, several hundred pages in: We are asleep until we fall in love. Estelle gave him a book in exchange, one written by a woman, so it didn’t need hundreds of pages to say things. Close to the start Estelle had underlined: Love is wanting you to exist.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Nothing must happen to you No, what am I saying Everything must happen to you And it must be wonderful Julia will give Estelle a completely.”

102. “Nothing must happen to you No, what am I saying Everything must happen to you And it must be wonderful Julia will give Estelle a completely.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The only time I’m not moving forward is when I’m taking aim.”

103. “The only time I’m not moving forward is when I’m taking aim.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “If your head isn’t up to the job, your legs better be.”

104. “If your head isn’t up to the job, your legs better be.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways.”

105. “The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “In Beartown silence always goes hand in hand with shame.”

106. “In Beartown silence always goes hand in hand with shame.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I know that the way home is getting longer and longer every morning. But I loved you because your brain, your world, was always bigger than everyone else’s. There’s still a lot of it left.”

107. “I know that the way home is getting longer and longer every morning. But I loved you because your brain, your world, was always bigger than everyone else’s. There’s still a lot of it left.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Love is wanting you to exist.”

108. “Love is wanting you to exist.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments... No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren’t hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”

109. “Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments... No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren’t hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Marriage? There ought to be a different word for it after a while. Because there’s no such thing as “eternal infatuation,” only love lasts that long, and it’s never simple. It requires a whole person, everything you have. The whole lot.”

110. “Marriage? There ought to be a different word for it after a while. Because there’s no such thing as “eternal infatuation,” only love lasts that long, and it’s never simple. It requires a whole person, everything you have. The whole lot.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “All children are victims of their parents’ childhoods, because all adults try to give their kids what they themselves enjoyed or lacked. In the end everything is either a revolt against the adults we encountered or an attempt to copy them.”

111. “All children are victims of their parents’ childhoods, because all adults try to give their kids what they themselves enjoyed or lacked. In the end everything is either a revolt against the adults we encountered or an attempt to copy them.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Soon they’ll be grown-up. Mothers have no armor to get them through life because they give every last bit to their children, by the end of their teenage years there isn’t even any skin left, so every feeling of loss cuts right into her flesh now.”

112. “Soon they’ll be grown-up. Mothers have no armor to get them through life because they give every last bit to their children, by the end of their teenage years there isn’t even any skin left, so every feeling of loss cuts right into her flesh now.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”

113. “The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “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.”

114. “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.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Because of course it was only a dog. It’s so hard to explain that it’s more than an animal when you’re that animal’s human. Perhaps it takes more empathy than most people are capable of. Or more imagination.”

115. “Because of course it was only a dog. It’s so hard to explain that it’s more than an animal when you’re that animal’s human. Perhaps it takes more empathy than most people are capable of. Or more imagination.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Friendship is both complicated and not complicated at all.”

116. “Friendship is both complicated and not complicated at all.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Expensive restaurants have bigger gaps between the tables. First class on airplanes has no middle seats. Exclusive hotels have separate entrances for guests staying in suites. The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”

117. “Expensive restaurants have bigger gaps between the tables. First class on airplanes has no middle seats. Exclusive hotels have separate entrances for guests staying in suites. The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”

118. “The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours.”

119. “Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Very few people have that effect. Very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.”

120. “Very few people have that effect. Very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “One day you will be one of the people who lived long ago,” it says.”

121. “One day you will be one of the people who lived long ago,” it says.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I just want you to know that I love you. Once you’re older, you’ll realize that I made an endless line of mistakes during your childhood. I know that. I’ve resigned myself to it. But I just want you to know that I did my very, very best. I left it all on the field. I gave this every ounce of everything I had. I.”

122. “I just want you to know that I love you. Once you’re older, you’ll realize that I made an endless line of mistakes during your childhood. I know that. I’ve resigned myself to it. But I just want you to know that I did my very, very best. I left it all on the field. I gave this every ounce of everything I had. I.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “They’ve always known that Beartown isn’t an easy place to grow up in if you’re different, and one of the worst things about becoming an adult is starting to realize that perhaps nowhere is. There are bastards everywhere.”

123. “They’ve always known that Beartown isn’t an easy place to grow up in if you’re different, and one of the worst things about becoming an adult is starting to realize that perhaps nowhere is. There are bastards everywhere.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you’ve done a good job.”

124. “If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you’ve done a good job.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “When people don’t talk so much they don’t dish out the crap either.”

125. “When people don’t talk so much they don’t dish out the crap either.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “People driving through say that Beartown doesn’t live for anything but hockey, and some days they may be right. Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”

126. “People driving through say that Beartown doesn’t live for anything but hockey, and some days they may be right. Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old.”

127. “Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”

128. “You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “But sometimes that’s what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.”

129. “But sometimes that’s what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “In a long marriage you don’t need words to have a row, but you don’t need words to say ‘I love you’, either.”

130. “In a long marriage you don’t need words to have a row, but you don’t need words to say ‘I love you’, either.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “All the way from locker room to boardroom, the boys and men of Beartown Ice Hockey Club are brought together by a single motto: “High ceilings and thick walls.”

131. “All the way from locker room to boardroom, the boys and men of Beartown Ice Hockey Club are brought together by a single motto: “High ceilings and thick walls.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”

132. “People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Sports are only sports until someone who doesn’t give a damn about sports has something to gain from them; then sports suddenly become economics.”

133. “Sports are only sports until someone who doesn’t give a damn about sports has something to gain from them; then sports suddenly become economics.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I didn’t say that money was happiness. I said happiness is like money. A made-up value that represents something we can’t weigh or measure.”

134. “I didn’t say that money was happiness. I said happiness is like money. A made-up value that represents something we can’t weigh or measure.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”

135. “Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Thanks for that, you’re a real tonic. You’re like a self-help book, only in reverse.”

136. “Thanks for that, you’re a real tonic. You’re like a self-help book, only in reverse.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You love each other until you can’t live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can’t... you can’t live without each other.”

137. “You love each other until you can’t live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can’t... you can’t live without each other.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”

138. “What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “It’s always easier to lecture other people about morality when you’ve never had to answer for anything yourself.”

139. “It’s always easier to lecture other people about morality when you’ve never had to answer for anything yourself.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”

140. “Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “God is incredibly important to people. Particularly to the people who don’t actually believe in God. In my experience, no one wants to talk to you about God as much as the people who claim they absolutely do not want to talk to you about God. And sooner or later, one of them will stare at you and ask, “But if God exists, then why are there wars?”

141. “God is incredibly important to people. Particularly to the people who don’t actually believe in God. In my experience, no one wants to talk to you about God as much as the people who claim they absolutely do not want to talk to you about God. And sooner or later, one of them will stare at you and ask, “But if God exists, then why are there wars?”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Hockey is a sport that rewards repetition. The same exercises, the same movements, until a player’s responses become instinctive, branded into his marrow. The puck doesn’t just glide, it bounces as well, so acceleration is more important than maximum speed, hand-eye coordination more important than strength. The ice judges you by your ability to change direction and thought quicker than anyone else – that’s what separates the best players from the rest.”

142. “Hockey is a sport that rewards repetition. The same exercises, the same movements, until a player’s responses become instinctive, branded into his marrow. The puck doesn’t just glide, it bounces as well, so acceleration is more important than maximum speed, hand-eye coordination more important than strength. The ice judges you by your ability to change direction and thought quicker than anyone else – that’s what separates the best players from the rest.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “That’s the sort of thing you never really notice until you belong to someone else, the fact that those of us who give children their names are the least willing to use them. We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”

143. “That’s the sort of thing you never really notice until you belong to someone else, the fact that those of us who give children their names are the least willing to use them. We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “There will be a spring and a summer. It’s almost excruciating. But then comes autumn, short as a wink, before winter is finally upon us again. Life does not go on, it starts again, everything is possible again. Anything can happen, all the best and all the most beautiful and all the greatest adventures on earth.”

144. “There will be a spring and a summer. It’s almost excruciating. But then comes autumn, short as a wink, before winter is finally upon us again. Life does not go on, it starts again, everything is possible again. Anything can happen, all the best and all the most beautiful and all the greatest adventures on earth.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living.”

145. “Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “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.”

146. “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.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “In ten years’ time two of them will be playing professionally. One will be a dad. One will be dead.”

147. “In ten years’ time two of them will be playing professionally. One will be a dad. One will be dead.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Since his father’s death he had begun more and more to differentiate between people who did what they should, and those who didn’t. People who did and people who just talked. Ove talked less and less and did more and more.”

148. “Since his father’s death he had begun more and more to differentiate between people who did what they should, and those who didn’t. People who did and people who just talked. Ove talked less and less and did more and more.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You get success by having extremely high integrity but absolutely zero prestige. Because integrity is about who you are, whereas prestige is only about what other people think of you.”

149. “You get success by having extremely high integrity but absolutely zero prestige. Because integrity is about who you are, whereas prestige is only about what other people think of you.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”

150. “Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”

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