The Winners (Beartown, #3)

by Fredrik Backman

“Your husband’s stupid if he thinks that old men are the only people who know their way around the forest!” The midwife smiles resignedly. “If you think that’s the only reason my husband is stupid, you don’t know many men…”

Being married is easy, she usually thinks. You just pick an argument you’re really good at, then repeat it at least once a week for all eternity.

In almost all of the world, being obsessed with hockey would make you an outsider, a weirdo, but not here.

Fairy tales are what help us cope with funerals.

Sports used to remind him of who he was, but now it just reminds him of who he no longer is.

“Anyone who’s allergic to dust wouldn’t be able to lobotomize you.

People talk about “coming out” as if it’s something you only do once, but obviously you never run out of new people, so you keep having to come out and come out until you snap.

and that's on being non-binary and queer

“Star Wars guys,” Ramona used to call them. “Show those films to a hundred men with a hundred different political opinions, and every damn one of them will think he’s Luke Skywalker. No bastard ever thinks they’re that Darth Vader.”

The man makes some calls about dealing with Ramona’s body, and Peter and Teemu sit like two naughty schoolboys in the headmaster’s office, passing the time by reading the framed extracts of poems that are popular in death notices that are hanging on the wall. “Don’t say there’s nothing left of the most beautiful butterfly life bestowed,” one says, and Teemu nudges Peter in the side and grins: “She’d have hated that one, right? Let’s have that on the grave-stone!” Peter bursts out laughing, then has to spend several minutes apologizing to the undertaker, who stares at them and mutters “hooligans” when he thinks they can’t hear him, and then Teemu laughs so loudly that he loses his breath.

Never underestimate a dad who’s trying to be forgiven, he’s capable of anything.

Endeavor from MHA b like

the only gut feeling Zackell worries about is diarrhea.

It is often said that history is written by the winners, but there are no winners here.

The hardest thing in hockey is to change your perception. The hardest thing to change your perception about is yourself.

so drunk that her pupils are in different zip codes.

Gotta start using this one

“There are always two of everything, one we see and one we don’t see,”

Then he fires three shots through the windshield.

OH iykyk oh my god

She lets someone play with the number 16 again. For one single game.

You dont understand how much i am sobbing rn