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“That’s why someone who hated their own childhood often has greater empathy than someone who loved theirs. Because someone who had a hard time dreamed of other realities, but someone who had it easy can hardly imagine that things could be any different.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Because that’s the thing about humans - we leave traces of our souls everywhere, as unique and identifying as fingerprints.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Children only know how to love until the world—or their mothers—teach them how to hate.”
― Alice Feeney, Good Bad Girl

“Everybody has a mother, but not everybody has a mother’s love.”
― Alice Feeney, Good Bad Girl

“Everyone I know with any sense has two families, the one they were given and the one they chose. You can’t do anything about the first, but you can damn well take responsibility for the second!”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“I was scarred but I was not broken. Beneath my wounds I was still whole. Beneath my insecurities, beneath my pain, beneath my struggle, beneath it all, I was still whole.”
― amy harmon, A Different Blue

“Who I used to be is always doing battle with who I want to be.”
― Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife

“The most unbearable thing about death is that the world just goes on. Time doesn't care. The morning after the storm, the sun goes up as if it's mocking us, over a wrecked forest and a battered town.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I'm right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make.”
― Meredith Wild, Hardline

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The magic is in the tiny moments. The small touches, the gentle smiles, the quiet laughs. The magic is about living for today and allowing yourself to breathe and be happy. My dear boy, to love is the magic.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“Life is fifty wrong turns down a bumpy road. All you can hope is that you end up somewhere nice.” “I”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“He has seen good people capable of great evil, but also evil people capable of incredible light. It's the same everywhere. Almost everybody loves too much, hates too easily, forgives too little. But most people want the same things: to live in peace, to make their hearts beat a little slower when the night comes, to earn some money to support the ones they love.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“To you who talk too much and sing too loud and cry too often and love something in life more than you should.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“When you're young you believe that love is infatuation, but infatuation is simple, any child can become infatuated, fall in love. But real love? Love is a job for an adult. Love demands a whole person, all the best of you, all the worst. It has nothing to do with romance, because the hard part of a marriage isn't that I have to live seeing all your faults, but that you have to live with me seeing them. That I know everything about you now. Most people aren't brave enough to live without secrets. Everyone dreams about being invisible sometimes, no one dreams of being transparent.

Marriage? There ought to be a different word for it after a while. Because there's no such thing as 'eternal infatuation,' only love lasts that long, and it's never simple. It requires a whole person, everything you have. The whole lot.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“A good book can be a light in the darkness. A good book can cure loneliness, change minds, or even change the world. A good book is nothing less than magic.”
― Alice Feeney, Good Bad Girl

“We all float through space on a rock, hurtling toward forever. So many of us forget that it's other people who make life worth living. As much as we like to think so, we can't do this alone. Everyone needs someone. Maybe not all the time, but enough that it matters.”
― T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

“You have a choice. You get to choose who you love. No matter what happens next, no one can take that away from you.”
― T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

“Enjoy the stories of other people's lives, but don't forget to live your own.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“You can’t allow the past to steal your present”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
― Vincent van Gogh