The Winners (Beartown, #3)

by Fredrik Backman

We help if we can, when we can, to the extent that we can. It’s a particular sort of job, but also a particular sort of person.

zero prestige. Because integrity is about who you are, whereas prestige is only about what other people think of you.”

“If you want to achieve what no one else can, you have to do what no one else wants to do.”

The world never feels bigger than when you’re holding the smallest person.

“Look up at the roof. Only you and me on the planet. We’re alone. No one’s going to hurt us.”

We can’t fight against evil. That’s the most unbearable thing about the world we have built. Evil can’t be eradicated, can’t be locked up, the more violence we use against it, the stronger it becomes when it seeps out under doors and through keyholes. It can never disappear because it grows inside us, sometimes even in the best of us, sometimes even in fourteen-year-olds. We have no weapons against it. We have only been given love as a gift in order to cope with it.