Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
Maybe anger is like a river. Maybe it crumbles everything around it. Maybe it hides so many skeletons beneath the rolling surface.
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
But one thing I learned from the Saints,
when the crossroads are open to you, you must decide a path.
I will not stand still while the world makes my choices
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
You do not let your words stunt unknown possibilities.
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
If I say those words, if I snap apart the air with them, whatever is binding me together will split too.
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
This whole time she’s swallowed her words like bitter pills not realizing they were slow-drip poison
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap when you land
It’s so horribly easy to fail at being at a grownup
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Worst thing about being a parent is, that they are always judged by their worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you are forever that parent who was checking his phone while their child was hit their head by a swing
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Parents are defined by their mistakes
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
One generation got told off for not being able to sit still, the next gets told off for never moving
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties when you know that no one else is happy either
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
If you wanna make god laugh, tell him your plans
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
Life can go in all sorts of ways, but it will probably go wrong
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s.
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
We don’t have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there’ll be another one coming along tomorrow.
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
The Book Told Me That 