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“Time is a strange concept once you’ve been abandoned. If you’re five years old when your parent leaves you, the leaving didn’t happen on one particular day, it happens every day.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You don’t wish for happiness when you have lost the love of your life, because you can’t even imagine ever feeling happy again. All you wish for is peace, calm, a long night’s sleep. You dream of nothing but being able to forgive time for making us old. For not letting us stay on a pier with our best friends. For letting summers end.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“What I hate most isn’t that people die. What I hate most is that they’re dead. That I’m alive, without them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You think you’re going to be young forever, but suddenly you reach an age where getting up from a chair can’t be taken for granted, it requires planning,”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends