Mj

“Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it’s self-doubt that needs to be taught.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“So if you like her, if she strikes a chord, this one goes out to you: the angry women, the threatening women, the solitary and the abhorred; women with cold hearts and sharp tongues, who play with fire and fall in love with monsters; women who love women, women who didn’t know they were women at first but know better now, those who thought they were women at first but know better now. We shall be monsters, you and I.”
― C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

“Grown men don’t have enough things they’re afraid of on this planet to become good at running.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary