Malayna Nutt

“Can I ask something?” Louisa asks, then asks immediately: “How do you cope with death?” It’s Christian’s mother who answers: “It’s art that helps me cope. 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. Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.’ ” “It’s cool that we happened at all,” Louisa whispers. “Something like that,” the mother smiles.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Comrade,’ said Snowball, ‘those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
― Aisling Rawle, The Compound

“we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Everyone dies, of course, every single person, but very few get to understand that they’re dying.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends