Louise Keenan > Louise's Quotes

“The world never feels bigger than when you're holding the smallest person.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Where you are born and who you become is a cruel lottery.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“The only day you can influence is today. You can't do a damn thing about yesterday and tomorrow, but you can do something about TODAY!”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It doesn’t take a lot to be able to let go of your child. It takes everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Ignore everything else, just concentrate on the things you can change.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“If you spend your whole life being someone else, who will be you?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“We become what we are told we are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“You can still love something without loving everything about it".”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Friendship is both complicated and not complicated at all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Anxiety. It owns us but leaves no trace.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Our children never warn us that they’re thinking of growing up, one day they’re just too big to want to hold our hand, it’s just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we’d never let go.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“The very finest thing you can give a child is somewhere to belong. The biggest thing you can have is being part of something.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Parents always think they have to talk to their daughters about guys. We shouldn’t wear short skirts and shouldn’t go out alone and shouldn’t get drunk and shouldn’t let guys like us too much. But you don’t have to talk to us about guys because we already know all that, for fuck’s sake, because we’re the ones they rape!! Talk to your damn sons instead!!! Teach them to talk to one another and teach them to stop one another. Raise just one fucking boy somewhere who can become a head teacher who understands that when boys pull girls by the hair, it’s the fucking boys there’s something wrong with. Tell your sons that if they have to THINK about whether or not they’ve had sex with a girl who didn’t want it, then they HAVE!!! If you can’t understand if the girl you’re having sex with wants it or not, then you’ve never had fucking sex with a girl who wants it. Stop telling your daughters. We already know it all.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Now they do everything themselves just like she always wanted when they were little and annoying, and now she wants to have it all back again because now they’re big and independent.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners