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“It is probably never easy for anyone to return to the place where they grew up, there's no way to forget who you are there, no matter how hard you've tried to become someone else. But for Ted, its impossible to come home now, he realizes, because home was the people.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Always heartbroken at not being able to be all the things everyone wanted.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion. In a world full of sledgehammers, his art was a declaration of war.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends