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“I tried to make you tough. You ended up kind.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“It's not down to us who goes and who stays. That's why it's against the rules for us to hurt.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“We said very little, because there was too much I wanted to say. That's always when we fall silent.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“... and I thought about your hands. You've always touched the things you like as though they had a pulse.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“That's what fathers do, they sit in front of their sons and tell their son's stories to a third person rather than letting them speak for themselves.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“I looked you in the eye and said: “Life isn’t fair.” You bit your lip. Lowered your eyes and replied: “Lucky for you.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“(...) is a good woman, but she gets overwhelmed by other people. She has to be careful of that. Taking care of others, it takes something, you know? It takes something from you to take care of another person and there’s only so much a person has to give.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“He laughed lightly, but only for a moment, and when I looked at him, I could see the part of Roger that never moved. Too much light will blind you, too much water will drown you. It is a danger to accept anything real from another person, to know something of them. A person has to be careful about the voices they listen to, the faces they let themselves see.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“When someone says they heard something you did not hear, and they know you did not hear it, then you cannot tell them they did not hear what they believe they heard. They have heard their desire to hear something, and desire always speaks the loudest. It is the loudest and most confounding emotion - wanting.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“It’s always seemed to me—and as I get older, I feel this even more intensely—that kindness to other people comes with its own reward. It can be immediately felt. And the only thing I can see that a belief in divinity makes possible in this world is a right toward cruelty—the belief in an afterlife being the real life … not here. People need a sense of righteousness to take things from others … to carry out violence. Divinity gives them that. It creates the reins for cruelty …”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“Whatever else I may have been, I was, I knew, not theirs.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“A word is put down as a placeholder for something that cannot be communicated, no matter what anyone tries, no matter how many words accumulate, there is always that absence.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“It seems that people who belong to a large church might want that church - so vast, so many rooms - to do the believing for them, but the church is just a building. The church has no thoughts.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“For the moment’s all there is, my darling.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in,”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Oh the things that hide secretly in our children, lying in wait, doing untold damage, yearning to be free. Alarming us beyond all measure.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“But happy is harder than it sounds,”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Find who’s fun and smart and safe, and stick with them.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“No one will know who you're supposed to be," Ben warned.
"No one ever does," said Claude.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“I'd always thought of myself a rational person, but the moment she was gone I ceased to be whoever I thought I was.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Anyone who was ever fortunate enough to be a part of X's life had to accept this hazard - she lived in a play without intermission in which she'd cast herself in every role.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Mr. Smith wished to warm his cold hands on her heat, while I have been scorched by it.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“X believed that making fiction was sacred ...and she wanted to live in that sanctity...”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“Others thought I was not in my right mind, that I was grieving inappropriately, that I should be patient, let another year or two pass, that I should back away from grief as if evading a large animal --go slowly, be patient, make no sudden movements.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“...but according to his artist statement their subject was "toxic masculinity," a topic that had become popular after men, millennia too late, become aware of its existence.”
― Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man