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“The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“That’s why rich adults hate the sort of thing that Louisa paints on the walls of buildings, not because they love walls, but because they hate the fact that there are beautiful things that are free.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends