Malayna Nutt

“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

“The only thing we can take for granted is that everyone we have ever met and everyone we have ever known and everyone we have ever loved will die. So how great must our imaginations be for us to even summon up the enthusiasm to get out of bed each morning? Endless! Imagination is the only thing that stops us from thinking about death every second. And when we aren’t thinking? Oh, those are all our very best moments, when we’re wasting our lives. It’s an act of magnificent rebellion to do meaningless things, to waste time, to swim and drink soda and sleep late. To be silly and frivolous, to laugh at stupid little jokes and tell stupid little stories. Or”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“She was a lot, but she was still someone you wanted to be around: she had that kind of energy.”
― Aisling Rawle, The Compound