Emma

“Benji doesn’t train with his team today, because he knows he’s no longer one of them. He doesn’t know who he ought to be instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It was never between you and anyone else anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“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 bleed 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

“Our spontaneous reactions are rarely our proudest moments. It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You