Wafaa Darwich

“I think my mom was very like me at first, because she was a romantic when she was young. But there’s no harder person on the planet than a romantic with a broken heart.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I’m not worried you’re going to die. I’m worried about you being dead. I’m worried about being alive without you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Time is a strange concept once you've been abandoned. if you're five years old when your parent leaves you, the leaving didn't happen on one particular day, it happens everyday. It never stops.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The artist would remember being fourteen as feeling like he was always homesick, because he realized as an adult that that was what the emptiness in his chest was: some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That’s all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends