Jen Marin

“time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to… be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“How do you manage to have such a long marriage?' she asked.
'You fight for it,' Estelle replied honestly.
Julia didn't seem to like that quite as much.
'That doesn't sound very romantic.'
Estelle grinned knowingly.
'You have to listen to each other all the time. But not all the time. If you listen to each other all the time, there's a risk that you can't forgive each other afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“the worst thing about paranoia is that the only way to prove you’re not paranoid is to be proved right.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Disappointment with our children is always just disappointment with ourselves, and nothing has a longer braking distance than that.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners