Quotes by Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. Tha — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the las — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after yea — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
I just mean ... damn ... this might sound a bit crazy, but sometimes you can't help wondering if we don't take all this — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
It doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person. And when enough people are quiet for lo — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
She is told all the things she shouldn’t have done: She shouldn’t have waited so long before going to the police. She sh — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes. — Fredrik Backman, Beartown