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“Abuse is also when your personality is attacked, not just your body. Abuse is feeling like you constantly have to walk on eggshells around the person you're supposed to love. Abuse is being cut off from your friends, even if you could never prove it was their idea you did it. Abuse is being made to feel you're going crazy. Abuse is being lured in with grand promises and wild declarations of love that can never be sustained. Abuse is being pushed into doing sexual things you're not comfortable with. That is also called rape, another word that has taken me some time to feel belongs to me. Abuse is intentionally humiliating you. Abuse is constantly blaming you for everything, and never them.”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“What is love?
Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's not what we've been told it its. Maybe it's boring words like security and safety, warmth and growth. Maybe it's the comfort of knowing someone really well and them knowing you back. Maybe it's kisses where you sometimes bump noses but you can laugh it off? Maybe it's never getting butterflies because you always know where you stand?”
― Holly Bourne, The Places I've Cried in Public

“De bästa måste man släppa taget om och lita på, för spjärnar man emot tuggar de bara sönder kopplet och sen är de borta för evigt.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Alltihop har bara handlat om samma sak: Alicia. Varenda människa vi berättat om, varenda saga du fått höra, varenda leder till henne. Det är här alla andras slutar. Det är här hennes börjar.

En dag får hon oss att känna oss som vinnare igen.

För det är hon som är björnen.

Björnen från Björnstad.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners