Beartown: A Novel (Beartown Series)

There are damn few things in life that are harder than admitting to yourself that you’re a hypocrite.

“People who think they’re good coaches never are.”

The one every mom and every dad deep down most fear having to admit: “We can’t protect our children.”

He loves her so much because she always makes him feel a bit stupid.

All the time he was growing up, the only thing he wanted was for life to speed up, and now all he wants is for it to slow down.

He once heard that the best way to prepare mentally for becoming a parent is to stay in a tent at a weeklong rock festival with a load of fat friends who are smoking hash. You blunder about in a permanent state of acute sleep deprivation wearing clothes covered with stains from food that is only very rarely your own, you suffer from tinnitus, you c

Sune has always been more interested in the length of the string than the size of the balloon.

“Success is never a coincidence. Luck can give you money, but never success,”

“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”