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“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. fell behind all my classmates, and I ended up here”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Folklore: Easy Piano Songbook with Lyrics | Beginner and Intermediate Sheet Music for Piano Players and Fans | Simplified Arrangements for Piano Students and Music Fans

“But it was one thing to live your dreams in theory—and it was absolutely another thing to clumsily, awkwardly, terrifiedly do it for real.”
― Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People