caoimhe murphy’s Reviews > Anxious People > Status Update

Going to stop for now. Just bought my own copy. Was reading a library copy. I want to annotate this book. It’s beautiful. The way Backman thinks is so insightful.

“I usually ask my patients what they think about the woman in the picture. Who is she? Is she happy? What do
you think?'
'I don't know what happiness is for her.?
The psychologist said nothing for a while before admitting ‘I’ve never heard that answer before'
Zara snorted.
"That's because you ask the question as if there's only one type of happiness. But happiness is like money”

“People like you are never as complicated as you'd like to be, especially not if you've been to university. Your generation don't want to study a subject, you just want to study yourselves.”
Ouch