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explain. “You get a dog and you know two things—you’re going to fall in love with it and it’s going to die one day. You knowingly walk headfirst into a heartbreak. That’s the basic madness of dog ownership.”
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Fredrik Backman
“Being a parent is so strange, all our children's pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Fredrik Backman
“You never get over death. Not if you're someone who loves.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Virginia      Evans
“I've spent my life trying to get back to having him even though I know I cannot.”
Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

Annie  Hartnett
“They’re not, Dad. Kids aren’t resilient. That’s something adults like to say to make themselves feel better. To pretend that kids don’t feel as deeply as adults do. But kids are everything that happens to them. They’re sponges. Everything bad, everything good. Every hurtful thing you say. Every loving one.”
Annie Hartnett, The Road to Tender Hearts

Virginia      Evans
“I supposed there is this one part of it, which is, Gilbert has never left me, and the circumstances of his death have never for one day diminished, and as I age it feels so strange that the majority of people with whom I come in contact don't have the slightest inkling that he ever lived.”
Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

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