Katie

“Hardly anyone took any notice of the political decisions at the time, but now the storm has arrived and the first thing to collapse over in Hed is the roof of the ice rink. At the same time a man is running through Beartown to save twelve flagpoles. A storm strikes a forest, one ice rink collapses and another remains standing, this will soon drive the inhabitants of two towns into a new battle for resources, and it will finish the way everything seems to finish around here: with violence. So much will have happened by then that we’ll have forgotten how it all started, but it starts here. Now.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Her voice breaks, and I feel sorry for her. I shouldn’t… But she’s alone. And she’s been alone for who knows how long? She could be alone forever. Maybe loneliness makes monsters of us all. Maybe it’s no excuse.”
― Rachel Harrison, So Thirsty

“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“In my experience, most people can only cope with having one enemy at a time.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners