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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.”

201. “Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You never say good-bye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say “see you later”. It’s important to people in the Land-of-Almost-Awake that it should be this way, because they believe that nothing really ever completely dies. It just turns into a story, undergoes a little shift in grammar, changes tense from “now” to “then”.”

202. “You never say good-bye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say “see you later”. It’s important to people in the Land-of-Almost-Awake that it should be this way, because they believe that nothing really ever completely dies. It just turns into a story, undergoes a little shift in grammar, changes tense from “now” to “then”.”

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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. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.”

203. “Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like “if.”

204. “Ove has probably known all along what he has to do, but all people at root are time optimists. We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like “if.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Parenthood can lead to a sequence of years when the children’s feelings suck all the oxygen out of a family, and that can be so emotionally intense that some adults go for years without having an opportunity to tell.”

205. “Parenthood can lead to a sequence of years when the children’s feelings suck all the oxygen out of a family, and that can be so emotionally intense that some adults go for years without having an opportunity to tell.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Tomorrow he will wake up, get out of bed, and start again.”

206. “Tomorrow he will wake up, get out of bed, and start again.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Memory loss is one of the finest things sports can give us.”

207. “Memory loss is one of the finest things sports can give us.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,” she said to him once, when he asked her why she had to be so upbeat the whole time. Apparently some monk called Francis had written as much in one of her books.”

208. “You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away,” she said to him once, when he asked her why she had to be so upbeat the whole time. Apparently some monk called Francis had written as much in one of her books.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washes through them, knocking them off their feet.”

209. “The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washes through them, knocking them off their feet.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “There will always be people who won’t understand his decision. Who will call him weak or dishonest or disloyal. They are probably people who live secure lives, who are surrounded by people who share their own opinions and only talk to people who reinforce their own worldview. It’s easy for them to judge him – it’s always easier to lecture other people about morality when you’ve never had to answer for anything yourself.”

210. “There will always be people who won’t understand his decision. Who will call him weak or dishonest or disloyal. They are probably people who live secure lives, who are surrounded by people who share their own opinions and only talk to people who reinforce their own worldview. It’s easy for them to judge him – 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: “And she was colour. All the colour he had.”

211. “And she was colour. All the colour he had.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.”

212. “Maybe all people have that feeling deep down, that your hometown is something you can never really escape, but can never really go home to, either. Because it’s not home anymore. We’re not trying to make peace with it. Not with the streets and bricks of it. Just with the person we were back then. And maybe forgive ourselves for everything we thought we would become and didn’t.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Elisabeth Zackell may have been right when she said that anyone who feels responsibility isn’t free. Because responsibility is a burden. Freedom is a pleasure.”

213. “Elisabeth Zackell may have been right when she said that anyone who feels responsibility isn’t free. Because responsibility is a burden. Freedom is a pleasure.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “It’s a big universe to be angry at but a long life to have company in.”

214. “It’s a big universe to be angry at but a long life to have company in.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “A time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he is going to be.”

215. “A time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he is going to be.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Only best friends know that stuff about each other. Only two boys who once lay side by side under the covers, reading comics by flashlight and realizing that the reason they always felt like outsiders was because they were superheroes.”

216. “Only best friends know that stuff about each other. Only two boys who once lay side by side under the covers, reading comics by flashlight and realizing that the reason they always felt like outsiders was because they were superheroes.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Because you’ve probably been depressed yourself, you’ve had days when you’ve been in terrible pain in places that don’t show up in X-rays, when you can’t find the words to explain it even to the people who love you. Deep down, in memories that we might prefer to suppress even from ourselves, a lot of us know that the difference between us and that man on the bridge is smaller than we might wish.”

217. “Because you’ve probably been depressed yourself, you’ve had days when you’ve been in terrible pain in places that don’t show up in X-rays, when you can’t find the words to explain it even to the people who love you. Deep down, in memories that we might prefer to suppress even from ourselves, a lot of us know that the difference between us and that man on the bridge is smaller than we might wish.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The only reliable thing about Benji has always been that he’s unreliable. But to everyone’s surprise, nature managed to get through to him where people failed. When someone learns to be in the forest as a child, it’s like gaining an extra language. The air talks here, and Benji understands. It’s mournful and wild.”

218. “The only reliable thing about Benji has always been that he’s unreliable. But to everyone’s surprise, nature managed to get through to him where people failed. When someone learns to be in the forest as a child, it’s like gaining an extra language. The air talks here, and Benji understands. It’s mournful and wild.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “On the biggest day of his life he is the loneliest boy on earth.”

219. “On the biggest day of his life he is the loneliest boy on earth.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You’re never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony – you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You’re among them, but also not. That’s the best thing about balconies.”

220. “You’re never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony – you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You’re among them, but also not. That’s the best thing about balconies.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You don’t have to prove anything to Anna-Lena. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone anymore. You’re good enough.”

221. “You don’t have to prove anything to Anna-Lena. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone anymore. You’re good enough.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

222. “So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “When you’ve been together for a very long time, it’s the little things that matter. 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.”

223. “When you’ve been together for a very long time, it’s the little things that matter. 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: “You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.”

224. “You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I don’t believe in violence, Leo, because my dad used to hit me if I so much as spilled a bit of milk. That didn’t teach me not to spill milk, it just made me afraid of milk.” He doesn’t know if Leo.”

225. “I don’t believe in violence, Leo, because my dad used to hit me if I so much as spilled a bit of milk. That didn’t teach me not to spill milk, it just made me afraid of milk.” He doesn’t know if Leo.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I’m constantly reading a book with a missing page, and it’s always the most important one.”

226. “I’m constantly reading a book with a missing page, and it’s always the most important one.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.”

227. “The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Because without music there can’t be any dreams, and without dreams there can’t be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can’t be any courage, and without courage no one would be able to bear any sorrows, and.”

228. “Because without music there can’t be any dreams, and without dreams there can’t be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can’t be any courage, and without courage no one would be able to bear any sorrows, and.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Because sometimes love isn’t enough.”

229. “Because sometimes love isn’t enough.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “All his life Bobo has wanted just one thing to be allowed to belong to something.”

230. “All his life Bobo has wanted just one thing to be allowed to belong to something.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Tomorrow, the Beartown Ice Hockey Club’s junior team is playing in the semifinal of the biggest youth tournament in the country. How important can something like that be? In most places, not so important, of course, but Beartown isn’t most places.”

231. “Tomorrow, the Beartown Ice Hockey Club’s junior team is playing in the semifinal of the biggest youth tournament in the country. How important can something like that be? In most places, not so important, of course, but Beartown isn’t most places.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “People say she’s gone mad, because that’s what people who know nothing about loneliness call it.”

232. “People say she’s gone mad, because that’s what people who know nothing about loneliness call it.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “If you have to ask the question, you simply wouldn’t understand the answer.”

233. “If you have to ask the question, you simply wouldn’t understand the answer.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “That’s all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”

234. “That’s all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”

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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. She said you can’t protect your kids from life, because life gets us all in the end.”

235. “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. She said you can’t protect your kids from life, because life gets us all in the end.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.”

236. “Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”

237. “I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The teacher wanted us to write what we thought the meaning of life was once.” “What did you write?” “Company.” Grandpa closes his eyes. “That’s the best answer I’ve heard.” “My teacher said I had to write a longer answer.” “So what did you do?” “I wrote: Company. And ice cream.” Grandpa spends a moment or two thinking that over. Then he asks: “What kind of ice cream?” Noah smiles. It’s nice to be understood.”

238. “The teacher wanted us to write what we thought the meaning of life was once.” “What did you write?” “Company.” Grandpa closes his eyes. “That’s the best answer I’ve heard.” “My teacher said I had to write a longer answer.” “So what did you do?” “I wrote: Company. And ice cream.” Grandpa spends a moment or two thinking that over. Then he asks: “What kind of ice cream?” Noah smiles. It’s nice to be understood.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “In the silence of the forest you don’t have to scream to be threatening.”

239. “In the silence of the forest you don’t have to scream to be threatening.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Eine der schrecklichen Auswirkungen der Trauer besteht darin, dass wir ihre Abwesenheit als Egoismus ansehen.”

240. “Eine der schrecklichen Auswirkungen der Trauer besteht darin, dass wir ihre Abwesenheit als Egoismus ansehen.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The truth. There isn’t any. All we’ve managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn’t got any, and all we know about God is that we don’t know anything. 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. We save those we can.”

241. “The truth. There isn’t any. All we’ve managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn’t got any, and all we know about God is that we don’t know anything. 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. We save those we can.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “We pretend to be good parents when all we really do is provide our kids with food and clothing and tell them off when they put chewing gum they find on the ground in their mouths.”

242. “We pretend to be good parents when all we really do is provide our kids with food and clothing and tell them off when they put chewing gum they find on the ground in their mouths.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Granny is seventy-seven years old, going on seventy-eight. She’s not very good at it either. You can tell she’s old because her face looks like newspaper stuffed into wet shoes, but no one ever accuses Granny of being grown-up for her age. “Perky,” people sometimes say to Elsa’s mum, looking either fairly worried or fairly angry as Mum sighs and asks how much she owes for the damages.”

243. “Granny is seventy-seven years old, going on seventy-eight. She’s not very good at it either. You can tell she’s old because her face looks like newspaper stuffed into wet shoes, but no one ever accuses Granny of being grown-up for her age. “Perky,” people sometimes say to Elsa’s mum, looking either fairly worried or fairly angry as Mum sighs and asks how much she owes for the damages.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “The only thing the sport gives us are moments.”

244. “The only thing the sport gives us are moments.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”

245. “Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “Spring arrives. It always finds us, in the end. The wind sweeps winter away, the trees rustle and birds start making a fuss, and nature suddenly crashes through with a deafening roar where the snow has swallowed every echo for months.”

246. “Spring arrives. It always finds us, in the end. The wind sweeps winter away, the trees rustle and birds start making a fuss, and nature suddenly crashes through with a deafening roar where the snow has swallowed every echo for months.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “You know, all my thoughts about morals and ethics boil down to one single thing: not if it concerns your family. You can have a thousand principles, but not if it concerns your family. That’s what you protect first and foremost, above morals, even above the law. Family first.”

247. “You know, all my thoughts about morals and ethics boil down to one single thing: not if it concerns your family. You can have a thousand principles, but not if it concerns your family. That’s what you protect first and foremost, above morals, even above the law. Family first.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “If you support Tottenham you always give more love than you get back... Tottenham is the worst kind of bad team, because they’re almost good. They always promise that they’re going to be fantastic. They make you hope. So you go on loving them and they carry on finding more and more innovative ways of disappointing you.”

248. “If you support Tottenham you always give more love than you get back... Tottenham is the worst kind of bad team, because they’re almost good. They always promise that they’re going to be fantastic. They make you hope. So you go on loving them and they carry on finding more and more innovative ways of disappointing you.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they’d never done anything wrong.”

249. “They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they’d never done anything wrong.”

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Fredrik Backman Quote: “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.”

250. “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.”

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