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“And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,” the boy says
“No?”
“No. Because if you forget me then you’ll just get the chance to get to know me again. And you’ll like that, because I’m actually a pretty cool person to get to know.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Do you remember when he was little and asked you why people went into space?”
“Yes. I told him it was because people are born adventurers, we have to explore and discover, it's out nature.”
“But you could see that he was scared, so you also said: 'Ted, we're not going into space because we're afraid of aliens. We're going into space because we're scared we're alone. It's an awfully big universe to be alone in.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“It hurts less and less. That's one thing about forgetting things. You forget things that hurt too.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities’ rule and minorities’ rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.”
― Zaman Ali, GOVERNMENT Servant, Not Master