Emma > Emma's Quotes

“It was never between you and anyone else anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Hockey is just a silly little game. We devote year after year after year to it without ever really hoping to get anything in return. We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensibly meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.
But what the hell else is life made of?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“They hold each other's hands. Sit beside each other in bed and count sleeping pills, wondering how many it would take to end their lives. When they were children everything was different. It feels like only yesterday, because it was.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It's impossible to measure love, but that doesn't stop us coming up with new ways to try. One of the simplest is space: How much space am I prepared to give the person that you are so that you can become the person you want to become?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Our spontaneous reactions are rarely our proudest moments. It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Benji doesn’t train with his team today, because he knows he’s no longer one of them. He doesn’t know who he ought to be instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You