Beartown (Beartown, #1)

by Fredrik Backman

‘Never trust people who don’t have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.’

If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.

She’s been left standing in the snow like a bare tree trunk without any bark, unprotected now that he’s no longer here.

The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.

There were people who advised them to talk to God about it, but it’s hard to maintain an ordinary conversational tone with God when you’re a parent, hard to believe in a higher power when your fingertips are tracing the years marked on a gravestone.