My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

“Because loyalty is a superpower.”

Then he quoted Frida Kahlo, who said she painted flowers so they wouldn’t die. And Leonardo da Vinci, who said that art was never finished, only abandoned.

Fish was always in love with someone, her crushes were like the drugs she took, happiness on credit. Her heart paid the debt, with interest.

There’s an author called Donna Tartt who describes why a person falls in love with art: ‘It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway.