Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

“God doesn’t protect people from knives, sweetheart. That’s why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”

Julia looked at the pair of them and thought about her mom, and how the most beautiful thing about her was the fact that she always stared life right in the eye, and no matter what it threw at her, refused to stop being a romantic. That takes the sort of heart that hardly anyone possesses.

The fact that we save those we can.”