The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
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The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
Matteo wonders if his parents are so certain of their faith that they believe their daughter is in Hell now. He wonders if they hope they end up there too, so they can see her again.
Fredrik Backman • The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
The two young women trample over the memories and two invisible little girls pad after them. Because they’re always walking behind us: the children we were before the worst that has happened happened.
Fredrik Backman • The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
She says “Peter,” not “darling,” and she pauses just long enough for him not to let her finish the sentence. So he quickly leans his forehead close to hers and whispers: “I love you!” Her smile comes so fast, caught by the intensity in his eyes, his breath so close to hers, and then she says the same thing with such obviousness that they can both
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“Ramona would have been proud of you.” He whispers back: “Are you?” She nods with heavy eyelids. What is she thinking there and then? Perhaps she’ll never remember it again, or perhaps she’ll always deny it, even to herself. There really ought to be a different word for “marriage,” but perhaps also a different word for “divorce.” One for when
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Dear Lord, how close you have to be to giving up each other to remember to fight for each other.
Fredrik Backman • The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
“Marriage.” There ought to be a different word for it once you’ve been married for enough years. When you’ve long since passed the point where it stopped feeling like a choice. I no longer choose you every morning, that was a beautiful thing we said on our wedding day, I just can’t imagine life without you now. We aren’t freshly blooming flowers,
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They carry more chairs into the church and discuss girls and snow scooters and none of the men in black jackets probably really know what they’re doing, but there and then they give Benji the very finest gift you can give someone who always used to be special: they treat him as if he isn’t special at all.
Fredrik Backman • The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
Time is unreliable when it comes to those we love. When they leave us it feels like a lifetime, as if they’ve become strangers, but the first morning after they come back it feels like they’ve never been gone.
Fredrik Backman • The Winners: From the New York Times bestselling author of TikTok phenomenon Anxious People
She said he could be anything he wanted to be, but he can’t now. Because he wants to be happy.