Hanan Alaali

“What I hate most isn’t that people die. What I hate most is that they’re dead. That I’m alive, without them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“children know hardly anything about their parents, even if they live with them their whole lives. Because all we know about them is as moms and dads, nothing about who they were before that. We never saw them young, when they still fantasized about all the things that could happen, instead of regretting all the things that never did.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Because art is a fragile magic, just like love, and that’s humanity’s only defense against death. That we create and paint and dance and fall in love, that’s our rebellion against eternity. Everything beautiful is a shield.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Art is what can’t fit inside a person. The things that bubble over,”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends