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“You only know me through my so. So of course you think I’m a good mom. But Ted isn’t my doing, he’s… a small miracle. The truth is, he’s given me far more love than I’ve given him.”

Ali thought for a long, long time before she said:
“Ted gives everyone more love. But I think you e both given each other the same amount: Everything you had.”

“You’re enough to look up to.”

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Tears have been officially shed

“Because all we know about them is as moms and dads, nothing about who they were before that. We never saw them young, when they still fantasized about all the things that could happen, instead of regretting all the things that never did.”

“It looks like it weighs a thousand tons in her arms now, even though Ted knows that it hardly weighs anything at all, so he probably has a good idea of the feelings that are making her knees buckle. Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.”

Oh my gosh.

I don’t think I’ve ever read something that made me ache and gives me chills every few paragraphs like this

“That there is a speed at which a heart can beat that you can’t remember when you’ve stopped being young, art that is a joy so overwhelming that you almost can’t bear it. How sad it must be, the artist thinks, what an immense loss for anyone who never gets to experience this.”

“And when we aren’t thinking? Oh, those are all our very best moments, when we’re wasting our lives.”

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“To look for a way to show other people: this was me, these were my humans, these were our farts. These were our bodies, and they were small, far too small, because they couldn’t contain all our love.”

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Fredrik Backman…. Wow

“He paints skulls.”

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I’ve only read the first chapter & this might be some of the most beautiful writing I’ve ever read