Sebastian and the Troll Quotes

“The best and the worst in life just happens to us, but the in-between... that's what keeps us going”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“Sebastian knows that his parents wish that something awful had happened to him. Because then there’d be a reason for him to hurt. Then he could be understood, maybe even fixed. But Sebastian’s darkness is not just a light switch that someone forgot to flip, not just a pill he doesn’t want to take. His darkness is a heaviness and a tiredness that pulls the bones of his chest inwards and downwards until he can’t breathe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“He holds the invisible scars against his cheek and wonders how you live with them instead of living in them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“We're the voices in your head that tell you not to do it, Sebastian. When the others say 'jump,' 'stop swimming,' and 'set fire to the rope.' We're the ones that tell you not to.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“Maybe you don't have to be happy, you just have to be”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“When the bubble still had tiny openings at the top they dropped down little pills, they said the pills were supposed to make the glass thinner but he thinks they might have misunderstood. He’s not sure they actually know as much about glass as they claim. The pills got stuck and blocked the last few openings. Now there’s only Sebastian in here.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll

“Nice pen.”
”It’s the most beautiful pen I know, I always carry it with me because I want them to know that I love them”, the troll says.
”Who?”
”The letters.”
― Fredrik Backman, Sebastian and the Troll