Lisa > Lisa's Quotes

“They run only where there are lights. They don’t say anything but are both thinking the same thing: guys never think about light, it just isn’t a problem in their lives. When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It's so easy to get people to hate one another. That's what makes love so impossible to understand. Hate is so simple that it always ought to win. It's an uneven fight.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Culture isn't just what we encourage but what we allow to happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Mom. You taught me that I don't have to have dreams. I can have goals.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“We rarely know why a society’s bureaucracy works the way it does, because it’s impossible to charge anyone with corruption when everything could just as easily be blamed on incompetence.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It's always the aggressors' feelings we have to defend. As if they're the ones who need our understanding.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“The idiots won’t say it was Kevin who killed Beartown Ice Hockey; they’ll say that “the scandal” killed the club. Because their real problem isn’t that Kevin raped someone but that Maya got raped. If she hadn’t existed, it wouldn’t have happened. Women are always the problem in the men’s world.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“We'll come running with you. Every mad sod here will come running with you all summer, if that's what it takes.'
He's not joking. Lifa runs u and down along the road beside Amat that night until he collapses, and after Amat has carried his friend home on his back, Zacharias starts running in his place. When he can't run anymore, other kids show up...
He had no team. So they gave him an army.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“No matter how old they get, we never want to cry in front of our children. We’d do anything for them; they never know because they don’t understand the immensity of something that is unconditional. A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“because however this story gets distorted these boys will make themselves the heroes. They always win.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“They always are, but when politics work in our favor we call it "cooperation," and when it favors others we call it "corruption.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“I don’t believe in violence, Leo, because my dad used to hit me if I so much as spilled a bit of milk. That didn’t teach me not to spill milk, it just made me afraid of milk.” He doesn’t know if Leo”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You