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“All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.” (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Quotes)
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“All the librarians of my childhood. Who saw that a boy was afraid of heights and lent him wings.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“And they do what they can. Try to learn to live with themselves, try to live rather than just existing.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“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.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Don’t fight with monsters, for you can become one. If you look into the abyss for long enough, the abyss looks into you.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Elsa is the sort of child who learned early in life that it’s easier to make your way if you get to choose your own soundtrack.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Granny says people who think slowly always accuse quick thinkers of concentration problems. “Idiots can’t understand that non-idiots are done with a thought and already moving on to the next before they themselves have. That’s why idiots are always so scared and aggressive. Because nothing scares idiots more than a smart girl.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Granny then said the real trick of life was that almost no one is entirely a shit and almost no one is entirely not a shit. The hard part of life is keeping as much on the not-a-shit side as one can.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details. Even when you are wrong. Especially then, in fact. A grandmother is both a sword and a shield.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“If you hate the one who hates, you could risk becoming like the one you hate.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Improbable catastrophes produce improbable things in people, improbable sorrow and improbable heroism.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“It’s much more difficult to have conflict when there are cookies around.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“It’s possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“It’s too painful to us to admit that our children won’t wait to grow up because their parents are busy with other things.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“One day at a time. One dream at a time. And one could say it’s right and one could say it’s wrong. And probably both would be right. Because life is both complicated and simple. Which is why there are cookies.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made-up.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“The currency there is imagination; instead of buying something with coins, you buy it with a good story. Libraries aren’t known as libraries but as “banks,” and every fairy tale is worth a fortune.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“The whole house smells of Granny. 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
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“There’s something special about a grandmother’s house. You never forget how it smells.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“They construct words of forgiveness from the ruins of fighting words.”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“We want to be loved,’ quotes Britt-Marie. ‘Failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.’ ”
Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
