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The Winners (Beartown, #3)

by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)

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— May 23, 2023 11:55PM

May 23, 2023 11:55PM

“Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. We’ll end up saying that violence came to Beartown this summer, but that will be a lie; the violence was already here. Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“He had no team. So they gave him an army.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“Anyone who devotes his life to being the best at one single thing will be asked, sooner or later, the same question: “Why?” Because if you want to become the best at something, you have to sacrifice everything else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“How does it feel for a child to play hockey? It’s not so hard to answer that. Have you ever been in love? That’s how it feels.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who are like everyone else, who belong to the norm, the majority, can’t possibly understand it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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