Beartown (Beartown, #1)

by Fredrik Backman

“You can’t live in this town, Maya, you can only survive it.”

She gives him tunnel vision.

He loves that girl more than he loves skating.

We become what we are told we are. Ana has always been told that she’s wrong.

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

So Ana has always been torn between the urge to scream as loud as she could, or not at all.

That may have been how they survived, Kira realizes: thanks to their ability not to fall apart at the same time.

She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman.”

You can get almost anything to look normal if you make enough comparisons.

know you’d have killed for me, Mom. I know you’d have given your life for me. But we’re going to get through this, you and me. Because I’m your daughter. I’ve got wolf’s blood.”