Stephanie

“That’s the very hardest thing to understand about death: nothing. That the world shrinks without him, because instead of him there is just emptiness. The vibration of his laughter, the smell of his skin, his phone number. How can someone who meant everything to Ted become… nothing at all? It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends