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“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

“Don’t let them catch her, Ted! She’s one of us!”

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“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