
My Friends: A Novel

But how do I explain that I’m freezing to death if I’m not seen by you?
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
But for Ted it’s impossible to come home now, he realizes, because home was the people.
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
Because a really good summer vacation should only really have two days: the first, and the last.
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
“If I live until I’m eighty, it won’t matter, because this is my now forever.”
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
“What do you think is the best invention in the world?” Ted shrugged his shoulders again. “Do you know what my mom said when I asked her?” Joar suddenly grinned, because no one could make him laugh like his mom. “Pockets, she said. POCKETS! What an idiot, right?” Then Ted smiled, because no one could say “iiidiiiot” with such boundless love in each
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The brain is so peculiar, the things that get stuck in it.
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.’ ”
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
“There’s nothing like the sea. Now your skin knows that. Now it’s going to miss it, always,” he promises.
Fredrik Backman • My Friends: A Novel
My mother and my father, who always made sure I had books in my hands and food on my table.