Kaitlyn

“Elsa heard one of the doctors at Mum’s hospital saying that Granny “could start a fight in an empty room,” but when Elsa told Granny she just looked miffed and said, “What if it was the room that started it?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Religion is something between you and other people; it’s full of interpretations and theories and opinions. But faith . . . that’s just between you and God.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It’s not important what exactly you believe in, but there’s got to be something, or you may as well forget the whole damned thing.” And maybe in the end that’s what everything, all of this, is about.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry