Alyce

“He was good at seeing beauty in everything, that happens if you’re no good at seeing it in yourself.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“... it's a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I can tell you it’s profoundly difficult to both reckon with the past and live in the present at the same time. And it wasn’t fair to my children that their mother had to heal and put herself back together in the same time span that they grew up.”
― Tia Levings, A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

“Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends