Ella Pursley

“He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now," she said to the other women in the closet.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“We are asleep until we fall in love.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

“You don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore. You're good enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People