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“For me, culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.” David asked what he meant by that, and Sune replied: “That most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“didn’t know who else to turn to. It gives the person you’re trying to manipulate nowhere to go.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Big secrets make small men of us, especially when we’re the men others have to keep secrets from.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown