Linsey

“Stories about boys like him only end with us no longer dreaming of time machines, because if one was ever invented in the distant future, it would already have been used to travel back here by someone who loved him”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“I had aged a thousand years overnight, Mom liked to say. That’s what death does to a person. Death destroys people, splits them open. Reveals who we really are inside, and it’s not a pretty sight. It’s quite bloody, actually. And your teeth—”
― Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

“People can bury so many of their loved ones during a lifetime and still get up the morning after, but something inside gets a bit heavier each time;”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“This hurts too much to touch with words. It was the man at the undertakers’ who showed the quotation to the Ovich sisters. “My favorite poet, Bodil Malmsten,” the man said, a little embarrassed at his own declaration of love. Now she’s the Ovich sisters’ favorite poet too.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners