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“We don't know who we are until we are connected to someone else. We're just better human beings when we are with the person we are supposed to be with.”
― Maggie Siff in Sons of Anarchy

“A gente gosta de acreditar que existe um fundo de verdade no velho ditado: Amor vincit omnia. Mas eu aprendi algo em minha vida breve e triste: este ditado é falso. O amor não vence tudo e quem acha isso é um idiota.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“When you paint an evil thing, do you invoke it or take away its power?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Why does anyone care about hockey? Because it tells stories.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.”
― Lucas Scott

“She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.

Words are not small things.”
― 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