My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

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What an amazing way to look at grief. This book was filled with wonderful quotes. I so enjoyed reading it.

Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.

This is my favorite line from the book. It really hit me!

A lack of self-confidence is a devastating virus. There’s no cure.

From that day until his last, the artist was neither unhappy nor too happy, just everything in between, calm and safe and contented. Everything a person can wish for.

Being a parent is so strange, all our children’s pain belongs to us, but so does their joy.

it’s a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.

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.

Disappointment is a powerful thing. Used correctly, it is stronger than fear, more terrible than physical pain, if you see it in the eyes of the one you love, you’ll do almost anything to make it stop.

That’s the worst thing about death, that it happens over and over again. That the human body can cry forever.

it’s scary to go back to a place where you hurt so badly and felt so small as he did here, you think you’re going to become the same person again.