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“A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.” (Britt-Marie Was Here Quotes)
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“A human being may not choose her circumstances, but she does choose her actions”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“All passion is childish. It’s banal and naive. It’s nothing we learn; it’s instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Because if we don’t forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it’s not loving our lovers even when they don’t deserve it?”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Because life is more than the shoes your feet are in. More than the person you are. It’s the togetherness. The parts of yourself in another. Memories and walls and cupboards and drawers with compartments for cutlery, so you know where everything is.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Death is the ultimate state of powerlessness. Powerlessness is the ultimate despair.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Human beings are the only animals that smile as a gesture of peace, whereas other animals show their teeth as a threat.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“If a human being closes her eyes hard and long enough, she can remember all the times she has made a choice in her life just for her own sake. And realize, perhaps, that it has never happened.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“If a human being closes her eyes hard enough and for long enough, she can remember pretty well everything that has made her happy.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“If you mix vanilla extract with baking soda, the refrigerator smells fresh.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“It takes years to know a human being. An entire lifetime. It’s what makes a home a home.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“It’s difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it’s in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts one day it is just too late.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“It’s easier to stay optimistic if you never have to clear up the mess afterwards.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“It’s hard not to want to go back to your normal life once you know how difficult it is to start again.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“It’s difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it’s in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts-one day it is just too late. Love has a great deal in common with balcony plants in that way. Sometimes not even baking soda makes a difference.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It’s hard work harder than one might think.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“She has not run down the stairs like this since she was a teenager, when your heart reaches the front door before your feet.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“She imagined she’d like to explain that it’s difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always been there for the sake of someone else.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself?”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Soccer is a curious game, because it doesn’t ask to be loved. It demands it.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Somebody has one of the worst hairstyles Britt-Marie has ever laid eyes on, as if she’s combed her hair with a terrified animal.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“You do get irritated by someone taking an interest in you, when you’re not used to it.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“You have to understand that when one is just standing there looking, then just for a second one is ready to jump. If one does it, one dares to do it. But if one waits, it’ll never happen.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“You love football because it is instinctive. If a ball comes rolling down the street you give it a punt. You love it for the same reason you fall in love. Because you don’t know how to avoid it.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
“You’re never quite alone when you can stand on a balcony—you have all the cars and houses and the people in the streets. You’re among them, but also not. That’s the best thing about balconies.”
Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here
