Lisa

“The idiots won’t say it was Kevin who killed Beartown Ice Hockey; they’ll say that “the scandal” killed the club. Because their real problem isn’t that Kevin raped someone but that Maya got raped. If she hadn’t existed, it wouldn’t have happened. Women are always the problem in the men’s world.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“No matter how old they get, we never want to cry in front of our children. We’d do anything for them; they never know because they don’t understand the immensity of something that is unconditional. A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“because however this story gets distorted these boys will make themselves the heroes. They always win.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“We'll come running with you. Every mad sod here will come running with you all summer, if that's what it takes.'
He's not joking. Lifa runs u and down along the road beside Amat that night until he collapses, and after Amat has carried his friend home on his back, Zacharias starts running in his place. When he can't run anymore, other kids show up...
He had no team. So they gave him an army.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You