Pasupathy Narayanamurthy

“But something happened. I walked along the beach out by Råå, the morning after the diagnosis, and I saw two dogs running into the sea, playing in the waves. And I wondered: Have you ever been like that, as happy as they are? Could you be that happy? Would it be worth it?”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“Every parent will take five minutes in the car outside the house from time to time, just sitting there. Just breathing and gathering the strength to head back inside to all of their responsibilities. The suffocating expectation of being good, coping. Every parent will take ten seconds in the stairwell occasionally, key in hand, not putting it in the lock.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“The years will allow them to meet in the middle, when the boys thoughts expand and grandpa’s contract.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer