June

“It’s so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art doesn’t need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“he and Ali laughed so much that Ted can still hear the echo inside him on the train twenty-five years later.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I was wearing one of my favorite tees—the one that said I’ll Believe That Corporations Are People When Texas Executes One—”
― Jennifer Crusie, Rest in Pink

“art is a fragile magic, just like love, and that’s humanity’s only defense against death. That we create and paint and dance and fall in love, that’s our rebellion against eternity. Everything beautiful is a shield. Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.’ ”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends