The Answer Is No

by Fredrik Backman

But the monkey can’t fly, so the bird has to walk. And after a while the monkey gets very annoyed with the bird, because the bird walks so very slowly. So then the bird suggests that maybe it can fly above the monkey instead? And then the monkey gets very, very hurt and says: “Oh! Excuse me then for wanting us to do something together!”

Therefore, to avoid your neighbors, you have to make yourself uninteresting, but not too uninteresting, because that makes you interesting.

But, of course, the people who complain the most are people who don’t even live in the area, but would still love to guess what kind of people are throwing away frying pans, which somehow always seem to be people who don’t look like the people who are doing the guessing.

usually keep my peanuts next to a jar of peanut butter, so they understand what I’m capable of!”

Lucas looks like he is talking to someone who communicates by picking random words out of a hat.

Lucas opens the door with the defeated manner of a sausage that dressed itself up as a carrot to avoid being eaten by a bear, only to be found by a rabbit.

She will meet a police officer, he will think she’s out of her damn mind, they will drive each other crazy every day for the rest of their lives. Such is love.