Ellie

“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bled and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario. is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.
But what the hell else is life made of?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Volcanoes cast forth stones, and revolutions men, so families are removed to distant places”
― Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea

“oh! can immortals weep? And can a Goddess do as mortals do, and live & reign where it is death be?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Proserpine And Midas

“God, how much he annoys her sometimes, but God, how she loves him. It wasn’t a love that developed gradually, it hit her like an affliction. It’s an ongoing condition.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown