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“She hugged me more often, and I wanted to be hugged, but I didn’t trust my love and I could tell from the way she looked at me when she thought I wasn’t looking that she didn’t trust it either.”

Ok and he didn’t have to write this

“Yet the real damage was not in the cutting words she wish she hadn’t spoken and that I would never forget. The damage was to our love

She was pleased to see I still loved her; I was pleased to see how readily both she and I were fooled. The two of us were aware of being pleased which intensified our truth, but we must have sensed that being so easily reassured was nothing more than a dilution of our love.”

this book reminds me daily that really, things could be much worse!! count your blessings yall!!

erm unfortunately this is hitting a little too close to home!!! absolutely rancid!!!!

“he is a beautiful part of life, i suppose. painful things can still be beautiful things,” ok and what if i force feed this book into a paper shredder. what then.

i wanna hate this so bad but like …

“i’ll take anything you give me. is that pathetic?” ok and what if that was my last straw

i don’t even wanna know what happened to them in the past bro they just need to get married immediately if not sooner

“admissions lead to love, and admitting love is like tying yourself to a train track.” yo BARS

“I need an Elliot about as much as I need a hole in the head.” retweet

Didn’t have to time to read even ONE book last month. Time to finish at least one this month is ALL IM ASKING FOR BRO

i changed my mind i must read romance in february

“when a child is born, its parents dream of it being as unique as possible, until it gets ill, when suddenly all they want is for everything to be normal.”

FREDRIK PLEASE I CANNOT DO THIS RIGHT NOW

“all your life you’re told exactly what happens. even so, no one tells you it’s going to be like this.”

not okay. not okay. not okay. not OKAY

“we devote ourselves to sports because they remind us of how small we are just as much as they make us bigger.”

this book is in fact living us to everything i hoped it would

“the only thing the sport gives us are moments. but what the hell is life, peter, apart from moments?”

is this book going to destroy me yes or no

forgot how much i love backman’s writing. if it’s this good translated, i can’t even imagine reading it in its original language 😭

don’t mind me cherishing every single word of these little masterpieces

wait but now i don’t want it end help

welpppp

can finally read again and i’m determined to finish it this weekend OKAY? OKAY