Fredrik Backman

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talki...”

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good an...”

“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”

“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.”

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”

“Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.”

“Každé manželstvo má svoje zlé stránky, lebo každý človek má nejakú slabosť. A každý, kto s niekým žije, sa s jeho slabosťou istým spôsobom naučí zaobchádzať. Môže ju vnímať napríklad ako nes...”

“A time like that comes for every man, when he choses what sort of man he wants to be. And if you don't know the story, you don't know the man.”