Polina ♆

“The curse is the same for everyone who has loved someone who died of an overdose: we think that if we could just have been with our human every moment of every day, then it never would have happened. It never stops being out fault.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Listening to one voice, and one voice only, doesn’t make you a human being. It makes you a parrot.”
― Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise

“Time after time, we fail at being human beings.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“That’s all of life. All we can hope for. You mustn’t think about the fact that it might end, because then you live like a coward, you never love too much or sing too loudly. You have to take it for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings and water balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends