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“She's holding a crossword magazine in her hand. Britt-Marie likes crosswords very much because there are very clear rules about how to do them, She only ever does them in pencil, though - Granny always said Britt-Marie was the sort of woman who would have to drink two glasses of wine and feel really wild and crazy to be able to fantasise about solving a crossword in ink.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

tags: adventure, dragon, fairy-tale, grand-adventure, grandmother, knight

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“But she doesn’t want to disappoint him, so she stays quiet. Because you hardly ever disappoint anybody if you just stay quiet.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“Because without music there can’t be any dreams, and without dreams there can’t be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can’t be any courage, and without courage no one would be able to bear any sorrows, and”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very, very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the ground, but the best and most beautiful of them rise from the lips of their tellers after the last words have been spoken, and then slowly hover off over the heads of the listeners, like small, shimmering paper lanterns.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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