James

“Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you're forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing. We don't take our eyes off them for days at a time, but then you read just one text message and it's as if all your best moments never happened. No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren't hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“One summer in high school I thought, hey, I love movies. Why don't I work at a movie theater? Which is like saying you should work at a butcher shop because you love animals. You see the ugly stuff that kind of ruins everything.”
― Nathan Tavares, A Fractured Infinity

“Say what you want about organized religion, but man, they make cool windows.”
― Alan Doyle

“that we don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dreams.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People