My Friends

by Fredrik Backman

What a treasure to miss out on. They never understood how special it is to be abnormal.

“Fish said she’d read in a book that in Heaven you could choose a moment in life when you felt really good, and then you got to feel like that for all eternity. She said it didn’t matter if we lived to be eighty years old, because that’s only a billion different nows, and one really good now is enough.”

You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.

The most dangerous creature on the planet is, and has always been, a young man. And the worst thing about a young man? That until very recently he was just a boy. No one gets any warning when he stops being one.

“The main character and the hero. They aren’t the same thing.”