Megan

“It's said that a person's first thought is the most honest, but that often isn't true. It's often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the memory of her voice.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“How many chances do we get to love something that's almost pointless entirely unconditionally?”
― Fredrick Backman