Nastja

“...most people do't do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Fredrick Backman

“If nobody knows who you are, you can be whoever you want to be.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s.”
“It’s such an odd thing, the way you can know someone so perfectly through what they read.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown