Gina

“Because a funny thing about rule-loving people is that to them it seems more important to impose punishment than it is to actually solve problems, and a funny thing about rule-breaking people is that they seem to find breaking rules a lot easier to do if someone else has broken them first.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“For example, during the Civil War, the price of milk, eggs, and cheese went up 60-100%. According to historian Emerson Fite (quote is edited to modernize the language) – “Employers were accustomed to giving themselves all or nearly all the profits accruing from the higher prices, without being willing to grant to the employees a fair share of these profits through the medium of higher wages.”
― Tom Pane, The Money To Control: How The Elite Conspire Against You

“Best to be like dill, Lucas has concluded. Not like basil, the most anxious and ingratiating herb, but also not like cilantro, that conflict-seeking lunatic. Be dill. Nobody cares about dill.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“I was insubstantial, and I remember thinking that we all are, really, just ghosts on the face of the earth trying to believe we have weight and a place in the world.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale