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“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Разбира се, истината е, че ако хората действително бяха толкова щастливи, колкото изглеждат по интернет, то в интернет намаше да има толкова много проклето съдържание, защото никой човек, който има страхотен ден, не прекарва половината от него в това да се снима. Всеки може да подхранва мита за себе си, ако разполага с достатъчно тор. Така че ако тревата изглежда по-зелена от другата страна на оградата, това вероятно се дължи на факта, че в градината на съседа е пълно с лайна. Но това няма значение, защото вече сме се научили да настояваме всеки ден да бъде специален. Всеки ден.”
― Fredrik Backman, Folk med ångest

“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. We're the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. And everyone else's children can swim.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People