“ They hate people and their stories; they have hated for so long and with such intensity that in the end the darkness enveloped their whole bodies until their shapes were no longer discernible. That is… Fredrik Backman
“ ... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside. Fredrik Backman
“ It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight. Fredrik Backman
“ We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like a fairy tale and when one had lived in the dark for so long it's very difficult not to believe in fa… Fredrik Backman
“ There are certainly a good number of alternatives to "shit," if you have a particular need to express such a feeling. Fredrik Backman
“ You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box! Fredrik Backman
“ Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them… Fredrik Backman
“ He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy. Fredrik Backman
“ It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating. Fredrik Backman
“ And in an apartment on the other side of town, everyone wakes up with a start when the hound in the first-floor flat, without any warning, starts howling. Louder and more heartrendingly than anything… Fredrik Backman
“ Anita is small and colourless in her grey trousers, grey knitted cardigan, grey hair and grey skin. But ove notices that her face is slightly red-eyed and swollen. Quickly she wipes her eyes and blink… Fredrik Backman
“ Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work--harder than one might think. Fredrik Backman
“ All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the vie… Fredrik Backman
“ The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their signif… Fredrik Backman
“ All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but… Fredrik Backman
“ Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason. Fredrik Backman
“ Until there are so many of them that no one dares to chase them anymore. Until they're an army in themselves. Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal. Fredrik Backman
“ There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells. Fredrik Backman
