Debra Lowman

“Fear. The nature of evil is fear."..
"Everyone feels fear, though. Not everyone-...It doesn't seem to matter whether a person has money or an education or social status or anything. The world just seems to break some people...so fear..plus fragility.”
― Emily Foster, How Not To Fall

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right. *”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown