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“...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of music ever written, I need nothing else. ’Course we wouldn’t put it on now. We’re too hard and experienced and sophisticated. But when it comes on the radio, well, it’s still a good song.”
― David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow

“He holds the invisible scars against his cheek and wonders how you live with them instead of living in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“We're the voices in your head that tell you not to do it, Sebastian. When the others say 'jump,' 'stop swimming,' and 'set fire to the rope.' We're the ones that tell you not to.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll