Us Against You (Beartown, #2)

by Fredrik Backman

Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.

Children notice when their parents lose each other in the very smallest ways,

“Grief is the price we pay for love,

cynicism is simply a chemical reaction to too much disappointment.

Men are busy, but boys don’t stop growing. Sons want their fathers’ attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons’. From then on we’re all doomed to wish that we’d fallen asleep beside them more often, while their head could still fit on our chest. That we’d spent more time sitting on the floor while they were playing. Hugged them while they still let us.