Anxious People

Too much time has passed for the father to ask his son how he’s doing, too much time for the son to be able to explain. The distance between them is too great now.

“You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.”

we don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dreams.

are emotional idiots, they’ll pay anything because they think all their problems will just disappear the moment they move in.

afternoon. The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future.

The ones who are looking for a home

“Stockholm” is, after all, an expression more than it is a place, both for men like Roger and for most of the rest of us, just a symbolic word to denote all the irritating people who get in the way of our happiness.

You can always tell by the way people who love each other argue: the longer they’ve been together, the fewer words they need to start a fight.

The psychologist remained seated at her desk, bemused at how bemused she felt.