The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what's best for ourselves.
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what's best for ourselves.
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Either you're the best or you're everyone else, and the best don't make excuses, they find a way to win. With all available means, at any cost.
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Don't let the bastards tell you what to be, go your own way, dance badly and sing loudly and become the best!
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
If people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn't spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who's having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that's probably because it's full of shit.
- from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else.
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Fighting isn't hard. it's the starting and stopping that are hard. once you're actually fighting, it happens more or less instinctively. the complicated thing about fighting is daring to throw the first punch, and then, once you've won, refraining from throwing that very last one.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Reverse radar and parking sensors and cameras and crap like that. A man who needs all that to back up with a trailer shouldn't be bloody doing it in the first place.
- from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
You want to be a hockey coach? Get used to not having the things other people have. Free time, a family life, decent coffee. Only the toughest of men can handle this sport. Men who can drink terrible coffee cold, if need be.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.
- from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman