The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

Don’t look on the internet for someone who is exactly like you. Look for someone who isn’t. Love is not to never fight. Love is always making up.

He turns out to be right, of course. Love isn’t powerful enough. But spite? Spite can change the world.

Lucas is happy. It’s not as hard as one might think to become, the hard part is just to keep being it. It’s hard because it’s so easy to get in your head that if you are to be happy, you have to be happy exactly all of the time. And who in the world has the energy for that? Happiness can be exhausting. Honestly, it’s most often enough to just not be the opposite.

One day you’re a happy, whole person, and the next day you’re forced into the most horrible thing on earth: making decisions.