Julie

“Culture isn't just what we encourage but what we allow to happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Because if we don’t forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it’s not loving our lovers even when they don’t deserve it?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Mom. You taught me that I don't have to have dreams. I can have goals.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You