Fabrizia

“It’s so hard to find the words when all you really want to say is: ‘I can see you’re hurting.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“They arrived to find the park was a train wreck. Literally; that was the theme of this year’s decorations, a locomotive accident with hundreds of gruesome fatalities. A line of smashed, overturned, and burning train cars—real ones, brought over from an abandoned rail yard—snaked through the park, partygoers shuffling around and climbing over them. Unsettlingly realistic corpses and severed limbs littered the ground. Massive zombie buzzards the size of pterodactyls swarmed overhead and occasionally swooped down on tattered leathery wings, snatching up some body part in a jagged beak and hauling it back into the sky. Again: Devil’s Night was not for kids.”
― David Wong, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

“The problem is that everything is relative, happiness is based on expectations, and we have the Internet now.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We liked the same voices, in the same way. So I let myself have a few minutes to think about what we could have been for each other, if everything had been different, somewhere else in our lives.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People