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

“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

“Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you'll do almost anything to make it stop.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“All his childhood the artist had seen adults destroy their surroundings, some with violence and others with silence, sometimes with clenched fists and always with empty bottles. Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about, but not even the artist had enough imagination to believe it was possible to paint his way out of there. It would take a really, really big idiot to dream anything as grand as that. Thank goodness he had one of those.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends