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“Promise you won't hate me when you find out who I've been.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“They construct words of forgiveness from the ruins of fighting words.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

“We want to be loved,’ ” quotes Britt-Marie. “ ‘Failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.’ ”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry