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Fredrik Backman Quote: “So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow.”

151. “So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “It’s an awful thing to miss someone who’s still here.”

152. “It’s an awful thing to miss someone who’s still here.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Because in the end that’s all anyone can ask of another person. That we are prepared to admit that we don’t know everything.”

153. “Because in the end that’s all anyone can ask of another person. That we are prepared to admit that we don’t know everything.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Alain Ovich is dead, and Kevin Erdahl may as well be. Benji is a man who loves men, and he loses everyone he loves. It’s hard to have more chaos in oneself than that.”

154. “Alain Ovich is dead, and Kevin Erdahl may as well be. Benji is a man who loves men, and he loses everyone he loves. It’s hard to have more chaos in oneself than that.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The hardest thing about death is the grammar, the tense, the fact that she won’t be angry when she sees that he’s bought a new sofa without consulting her first. She won’t be anything. She isn’t on her way home. She was.”

155. “The hardest thing about death is the grammar, the tense, the fact that she won’t be angry when she sees that he’s bought a new sofa without consulting her first. She won’t be anything. She isn’t on her way home. She was.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Did your parents by any chance have the same surname before they met?” Zara asked.”

156. “Did your parents by any chance have the same surname before they met?” Zara asked.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all of your heroes, they’ve been obsessed. Happy people don’t get obsessed, they don’t devote their lives to curing illnesses or making planes take off. The happy leave nothing behind. They live for the sake of living, they’re only on earth as consumers. Not me.”

157. “Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all of your heroes, they’ve been obsessed. Happy people don’t get obsessed, they don’t devote their lives to curing illnesses or making planes take off. The happy leave nothing behind. They live for the sake of living, they’re only on earth as consumers. Not me.”

— Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman Quote: “Not knowing is a good place to start.”

158. “Not knowing is a good place to start.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Sports creates complicated men, proud enough to refuse to admit their mistakes, but humble enough always to put their team first.”

159. “Sports creates complicated men, proud enough to refuse to admit their mistakes, but humble enough always to put their team first.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had the first time she saw him under that tree, and still adored all the others.”

160. “For more than half a century they belonged to one another. She detested the same characteristics in him that last day as she had the first time she saw him under that tree, and still adored all the others.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.”

161. “The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “We aren’t freshly blooming flowers, we’re two trees with intertwined roots, you’ve grown old within me.”

162. “We aren’t freshly blooming flowers, we’re two trees with intertwined roots, you’ve grown old within me.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “She was just one person out of several billion, and most people never become individuals to us. They’re just people. We’re just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what we do to each other, with each other, for each other.”

163. “She was just one person out of several billion, and most people never become individuals to us. They’re just people. We’re just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what we do to each other, with each other, for each other.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Pride in a team can come from a variety of causes. Pride in a place, or a community, or just a single person, We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.”

164. “Pride in a team can come from a variety of causes. Pride in a place, or a community, or just a single person, We devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think that teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.”

165. “Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think that teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

166. “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,” she sometimes used to whisper to Noah, though he didn’t know what she meant before she was buried.”

167. “Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,” she sometimes used to whisper to Noah, though he didn’t know what she meant before she was buried.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for being impatient, for not knowing everything, not making better packed lunches, for still wanting more out of life than just being a mother. She hears other women in Beartown sigh behind her back: “Yes, but she has a full-time job, you know. Can you imagine?” No matter how much you try to let words like that run off you, a few of them stick.”

168. “Not a second has passed since she had children without her feeling like a bad mother. For everything. For not understanding, for being impatient, for not knowing everything, not making better packed lunches, for still wanting more out of life than just being a mother. She hears other women in Beartown sigh behind her back: “Yes, but she has a full-time job, you know. Can you imagine?” No matter how much you try to let words like that run off you, a few of them stick.”

— Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman Quote: “Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it’s a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove “my friend” before offering to sell him a watch.”

169. “Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it’s a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove “my friend” before offering to sell him a watch.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The most unbearable thing about death is that the world just goes on. Time doesn’t care. The morning after the storm, the sun goes up as if it’s mocking us, over a wrecked forest and a battered town.”

170. “The most unbearable thing about death is that the world just goes on. Time doesn’t care. The morning after the storm, the sun goes up as if it’s mocking us, over a wrecked forest and a battered town.”

— Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman Quote: “Us against you.”

171. “Us against you.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.”

172. “But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “And there are no winners without losers, no stars are born without others in the collective being sacrificed.”

173. “And there are no winners without losers, no stars are born without others in the collective being sacrificed.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”

174. “Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “And we know that it’s very common for people suffering from depression to be afraid of feeling happy. Because even depression can be a sort of secure bubble, it can make you start to think, If I’m not unhappy, if I’m not angry – who am I then?”

175. “And we know that it’s very common for people suffering from depression to be afraid of feeling happy. Because even depression can be a sort of secure bubble, it can make you start to think, If I’m not unhappy, if I’m not angry – who am I then?”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The hardest thing about having a family is that you are never finished.”

176. “The hardest thing about having a family is that you are never finished.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible.”

177. “A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “There were days when Kira thought about giving up and asking for a divorce. But she remembered one of the stupid slogans written on scraps of paper all over Peter’s room when he was growing up: “The only time I’m not moving forward is when I’m taking aim.”

178. “There were days when Kira thought about giving up and asking for a divorce. But she remembered one of the stupid slogans written on scraps of paper all over Peter’s room when he was growing up: “The only time I’m not moving forward is when I’m taking aim.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Ove, only a swine thinks size and strength are the same thing. Remember that.” And Ove never forgot it.”

179. “Ove, only a swine thinks size and strength are the same thing. Remember that.” And Ove never forgot it.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Amat knows his options are limited, so his plan is simple: from here to the junior team, then the A-team, then professional. When his first wages reach his account he’ll grab that cleaning cart from his mother and never let her see it again. He’ll allow her aching fingers to rest and give her aching back a break. He doesn’t want possessions. He just wants to lie in bed one single night without having to count.”

180. “Amat knows his options are limited, so his plan is simple: from here to the junior team, then the A-team, then professional. When his first wages reach his account he’ll grab that cleaning cart from his mother and never let her see it again. He’ll allow her aching fingers to rest and give her aching back a break. He doesn’t want possessions. He just wants to lie in bed one single night without having to count.”

— Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman Quote: “We’re just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.”

181. “We’re just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “She’s seven years older than him, and with that age gap you don’t have a big sister when you’re little, you have an idol.”

182. “She’s seven years older than him, and with that age gap you don’t have a big sister when you’re little, you have an idol.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.” And that’s how it was.”

183. “We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.” And that’s how it was.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others. There will be days when Maya is asked if she really understood the consequences, and she will nod yes, and of all the feelings inside her then, guilt will be the greatest. Because of the unimaginable cruelty she showed toward the people who loved her the most.”

184. “What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most empathy for others. There will be days when Maya is asked if she really understood the consequences, and she will nod yes, and of all the feelings inside her then, guilt will be the greatest. Because of the unimaginable cruelty she showed toward the people who loved her the most.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “And if you don’t know the story, you don’t know the man.”

185. “And if you don’t know the story, you don’t know the man.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Grief is the price we pay for love, Ramona. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.”

186. “Grief is the price we pay for love, Ramona. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

187. “All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “In a library. You don’t have to put up with reality there. It’s as if thousands of strangers have given away their imaginary friends, they’re sitting on the shelves and calling to you as you walk past. There’s an author called Donna Tartt who describes why a person falls in love with art: ‘It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you.’ That’s what libraries feel like for me.”

188. “In a library. You don’t have to put up with reality there. It’s as if thousands of strangers have given away their imaginary friends, they’re sitting on the shelves and calling to you as you walk past. There’s an author called Donna Tartt who describes why a person falls in love with art: ‘It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you.’ That’s what libraries feel like for me.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism. It’s impossible to explain what you have to do in order to carry on after a funeral, how to put the pieces of a family back together again, how to live with the jagged edges. So what do you end up asking for? You ask for a good day. One single good day. A few hours of amnesia.”

189. “One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism. It’s impossible to explain what you have to do in order to carry on after a funeral, how to put the pieces of a family back together again, how to live with the jagged edges. So what do you end up asking for? You ask for a good day. One single good day. A few hours of amnesia.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “There’s an old joke among the women of Beartown: “I just wish my husband would look at me the way he watches hockey.”

190. “There’s an old joke among the women of Beartown: “I just wish my husband would look at me the way he watches hockey.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “At the end of your career you’re trying to find a point to it all, and at the start of it you’re looking for a purpose.”

191. “At the end of your career you’re trying to find a point to it all, and at the start of it you’re looking for a purpose.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “She said I’m overprotective. That I’m one of those penguins that squats on top of a stone because I don’t want to accept that the egg has gone.”

192. “She said I’m overprotective. That I’m one of those penguins that squats on top of a stone because I don’t want to accept that the egg has gone.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “It was a day completely devoid of weather. During some weeks in winter in the central part of Scandinavia the sky doesn’t seem to bother even attempting to impress us, it greets us with the color of newspaper in a puddle, and dawn leaves behind it a fog as if someone has been setting fire to ghosts.”

193. “It was a day completely devoid of weather. During some weeks in winter in the central part of Scandinavia the sky doesn’t seem to bother even attempting to impress us, it greets us with the color of newspaper in a puddle, and dawn leaves behind it a fog as if someone has been setting fire to ghosts.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Why do people think you’re naked if you’re only wearing socks but not naked if you’re wearing underpants, because you have the same amount of fabric on your body?”

194. “Why do people think you’re naked if you’re only wearing socks but not naked if you’re wearing underpants, because you have the same amount of fabric on your body?”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”

195. “We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.”

196. “Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “When Kira woke up the following morning, Peter explained the job to her in even simpler terms: “Everyone in Beartown has this burning passion for hockey. My job is to make sure no one catches on fire.” Kira kissed him on the forehead and told him he was an idiot.”

197. “When Kira woke up the following morning, Peter explained the job to her in even simpler terms: “Everyone in Beartown has this burning passion for hockey. My job is to make sure no one catches on fire.” Kira kissed him on the forehead and told him he was an idiot.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now,” she said to the other women in the closet.”

198. “He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now,” she said to the other women in the closet.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Sometimes the safest place is when you flee to what seems the most dangerous,” said Granny, and then she described how the prince rode right into the darkest forest and the shadows stopped, hissing, at the edge.”

199. “Sometimes the safest place is when you flee to what seems the most dangerous,” said Granny, and then she described how the prince rode right into the darkest forest and the shadows stopped, hissing, at the edge.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.”

200. “All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.”

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