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Ellen bransford Ellen bransford said: " Three Sons for the Kaiser by Hazel Strouts was a fascinating read about the only three sones of a couple, all of whom died in the First World War. The story was made more touching as the author was the granddaughter of the eldest son. Ms. Strouts pre ...more "

 
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I would think, at least we’re not back there, dealing with fires and floods and food scarcity and all the rest of it. At least we are here, in a place that seems hostile until you look more closely. Until you begin to see its beauty and its ...more
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“the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore,”
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“You think you’re going to be young forever, but suddenly you reach an age where getting up from a chair can’t be taken for granted, it requires planning,”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Fredrik Backman
“Forget you? We can’t even remember a life before you showed up. How could we forget you?”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Fredrik Backman
“If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers, let us make good.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Fredrik Backman
“Becoming a parent? Someone said it’s an invisible tidal wave that hits you with such force that you lose your breath and never quite get it back. You spend your whole life gasping, someone else said, because it’s a love so immense that it squeezes the air out of your lungs. Everyone else thinks you look like the same person afterward, a third said, but you don’t understand any of it, because there’s such a clear before and after. A completely new you.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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