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“I didn't want the bastards to see me bleed," she whispers to her mother.

"Sometimes, I'm afraid that they're going to have to. To understand that you're a real person," her mother sobs, clutching her daughter so very tightly in her arms.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Maya wipes her tears and whispers, “Mom. You taught me that I don’t have to have dreams. I can have goals.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays