Fredrik Backman, Beartown Quotes
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Just because you don’t like peanut butter doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t like . . . peanuts.
You can love something without loving everything about it. You don't have to feel embarrassed about not being proud. That applies to hockey, but it also applies to friends.
The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.
The very worst events in life have that effect on a family: we always remember, more sharply than anything else, the last happy moments before everything fell apart.
Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.
She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.Words are not small things.
For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.
Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.