Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry Quotes

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

To teach her that not all monsters are in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.

She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

And then Mum spoons the coffee a little as if she’s having fantasies of flinging it in Britt-Marie’s face. But in a controlled way.

Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.

People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)

It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.

Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.

We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!

When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]

Until there are so many of them that no one dares to chase them anymore. Until they're an army in themselves. Because if a sufficient number of people are different, no one has to be normal.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

Don't people get married because they're full of love and then divorced when they run out of it?" (Elsa)"Did you learn that one in school?" (Mom)"It's my own theory." (Elsa)

Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.