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“When you’re young you believe that love is infatuation, but infatuation is simple, any child can become infatuated, fall in love. But real love? Love is a job for an adult. Love demands a whole person, all the best of you, all the worst. It has nothing to do with romance, because the hard part of a marriage isn’t that I have to live seeing all your faults, but that you have to live with me seeing them. That I know everything about you now. Most people aren’t brave enough to live without secrets. Everyone dreams about being invisible sometimes, no one dreams of being transparent.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“A moment later father and son are standing face-to-face shouting at each other, but they’ve never been farther apart.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“No one could give me what I wanted, because what I wanted was to be remade.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“But in that moment, I realized how much I’d been counting on that conflict coming to an end, how deeply I believed in a future in which we would be a father and daughter at peace.”
― Tara Westover, Educated