Linsey

“Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up. Now there’s just an answering machine full of memories at the other end, fragments of a voice that are getting weaker and weaker.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“The most unbearable thing about death is that the world just goes on. Time doesn't care. The morning after the storm, the sun goes up as if it's mocking us, over a wrecked forest and a battered town.”
― 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