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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I love you and I believe in you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“That’s the very hardest thing to understand about death: nothing. That the world shrinks without him, because instead of him there is just emptiness. The vibration of his laughter, the smell of his skin, his phone number. How can someone who meant everything to Ted become… nothing at all? It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Do you know what the biggest thread to women’s health is?’’
‘’Men,’’ Louisa says, because all women know that.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You think you’re going to be young forever, but suddenly you reach an age where getting up from a chair can’t be taken for granted, it requires planning,”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The birds are like tourists. They screech and make a mess, but you’re not allowed to shoot them…”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The following day, autumn would tear September out of the exhausted hands of summer.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“that’s the worst thing about being a parent: that almost everyone does their best, but almost all fail regardless.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends