Vicki Nix

“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Elsa hadn’t known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown