Piper Caryl

“They’ve said and written grand, wonderful things. I hope you get to read and hear all of them, because there’s something so special in that experience, in falling in love with words. Feeling them like fluttering butterflies beneath your skin. Like whirlwinds in your head. Like a punch to the gut.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends

“Early tomorrow morning even the most serious critics, even those who have never written a kind word about the artist's paintings, will whisper "Oh no" into their phones when they hear what has happened. And Ted has to forgive them, because in grief we are reminded that we're human beings. In life we might be enemies, but when faced with death, we see the truth: we are one species, all we have is each other, and where you go, I shall follow.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language... That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The realization that you will, from that moment on, draw all your breaths through someone else’s lungs hits you harder when you aren’t prepared.”
― Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know About The World: From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Anxious People and My Friends