Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

“Your mom was right, the ones who make you laugh last a lifetime,” Estelle repeated, thinking of a British author who had written that nothing in the world is so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s.

We have all of this in common, yet most of us remain strangers, we never know what we do to each other, how your life is affected by mine.