My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

that’s the worst thing about being a parent: that almost everyone does their best, but almost all fail regardless.

You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself. It’s so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art doesn’t need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”

Great art is a small break from human despair,