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“The artist’s bookcases were full of poets, like the bookcases of anyone trying to find out how everyone else copes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it’s self-doubt that needs to be taught.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art is empathy.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends