Melissa

“But how is it your team if you don’t play in it?” The boy thinks this over for a moment. Then he seems to take a firm grip on the ball. “We’ve supported this team for longer than most of the players in it. So it’s more our team than theirs.” “Preposterous,” snorts Britt-Marie.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Soccer is a curious game, because it doesn’t ask to be loved. It demands it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här