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“A great deal is expected of anyone who’s been given a lot.” (Beartown Quotes)
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Anything that grows closely enough to what it loves will eventually share the same roots. We can talk about loss, we can treat it and give it time, but biology still forces us to live according to certain rules: plants that are split down the middle don’t heal, they die.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“But sometimes that’s what it takes, a culture of silence to foster a culture of winning.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Death does strange, incomprehensible things to loving souls.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: “That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“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 and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that’s easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe – comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“He will never be able to explain how he dares to do this, but perhaps you get tired of being frightened if you’ve been frightened long enough.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“It doesn’t take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“It’s only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That’s all.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“It’s always easier to lecture other people about morality when you’ve never had to answer for anything yourself.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“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.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“One of all the terrible effects of grief is that we interpret its absence as egotism.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“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.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“People say she’s gone mad, because that’s what people who know nothing about loneliness call it.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Perhaps one day the man in the black jacket will think about this too: why he only wondered if it was Kevin or Amat who was telling the truth. Why Maya’s word wasn’t enough.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith. that’s just between you and God.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“She was fifteen and had access to the Internet; she already knew that the world is a cruel place if you’re a girl. Her parents couldn’t imagine that this could happen, but Maya simply hadn’t expected it to happen to her.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Some of you were born with talent, some weren’t. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you got nothing. But remember, when you’re out on the ice you’re all equals. And there’s one thing you need to know: desire always beats luck.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Sometimes life doesn’t let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“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 washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It’s incomprehensible because there’s nothing to compare it to. It’s like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who’s lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“The only time I’m not moving forward is when I’m taking aim.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they’re going to have any chance in the world.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“There are few words that are harder to explain than “loyalty.” It’s always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thing.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“There are two things that are particularly good at reminding us how old we are: children and sports.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“There’s always someone who’s worse. You can get almost anything to look normal if you make enough comparisons.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“There’s an obvious difference between the children who live in homes where the money can run out and the ones who don’t. How old you are when you realize that also makes a difference.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“Very few people have that effect. Very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“We love winners, even though they’re very rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter. We forgive them. We like them while they’re winning.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“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.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“You can still love something without loving everything about it.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
“You want to punch a man in the face, but still refuse to let anyone hurt his children.”
Fredrik Backman
Beartown
