The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

because the truth about problems is that the problem itself is never actually the problem. It’s always the people involved who are the problem.

“People who have cats live longer. There’s research.

I, the angel, ask you to choose one thing each from the pile. For what is now everyone’s trash was once someone’s possession. Carry this thing with you through life as a reminder of the pile within yourselves. Do not collect junk in your hearts. You can make yourself happy if you don’t let others make you unhappy.

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.

Love isn’t powerful enough. But spite? Spite can change the world. Soon

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.

If you ask people what they think, they start thinking, and that’s how wars start.