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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
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“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
“Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
“Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
“Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits.”
“I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.”
“We want to be loved,’ ” quotes Britt-Marie. “ ‘Failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.’ ”
“if you hate the one who hates, you could risk becoming like the one you hate.”
“The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”
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Book Keywords:
death-of-a-loved-one, friendship, sorrow
