And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

by Fredrik Backman

“The worst part about growing old is that I don’t get any ideas anymore.”

“Those who hasten to live are in a hurry to miss,”

“The only time you’ve failed is if you don’t try once more.”

“Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we’re big,” Noah tells him. “What did you write?” “I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first.”

“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”

“Tell me that we danced, Noahnoah. Tell me that that’s what it’s like to fall in love, like you don’t have room for yourself in your own feet.”

‘Ted, we’re not going into space because we’re afraid of aliens. We’re going because we’re scared we’re alone. It’s an awfully big universe to be alone in.’ ”